We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

In recent years, significant advances have been made in better understanding the complex relationships between health … level, the integration of insights from the biological and health sciences into economic analyses as well as improvements in … the quantity and quality of data on population health and socio-economic status. To provide a foundation for discussing …

productivity due to disability, prompts more people to choose physically intense occupations. Using data from the Health and …-collar and white-collar occupations in the effects of declining health and disability on productivity, which affects labor supply …