We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self-employment …, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first … health found after one year also appear to be temporary. These results suggest that one-time and one …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate but find no evidence of a causal relationship running from …

demonstrate their economic value. In this paper, we examine one element of that value, the effect of oral health on labor market … discrimination are the likely driving factors whereby oral health affects earnings …

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … worked as children. We find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, we estimate that from age 30 onward the …

In this paper, we investigate the complex interrelationships among worktime, wages and health identified in the … Grossman model of the demand for health. We specify a 3-equation simultaneous model designed to capture the tune dependent … relationship between worktime and health found in other studies disappears when the relevant simultaneities are accounted for. Our …

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …

, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the …

contemporaneous health is strongly associated with labor force exit in general and with application for disability insurance in …This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life. We … use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor …

I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using … weight adjusted for height or Body Mass Index (BMI) as a proxy for health. I find that both in 1900 and in 1985-1991 the …, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. The difference in the relative risk of …