urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a … large positive impact on the skill premium. The impact of HIV on the wages of low skilled workers is insignificantly …

to both wages and changes in family structure. Our study provides the first quantitative statement about the insurance … aspect of the EITC that has received little attention thus far is its role as a public insurance program. Yet, the structure … demographic risk, but have only limited self-insurance capacity. We use the model to compare outcomes under the EITC to the …

not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic effects on shadow wages within the survey period. In contrast, damage …

Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …

In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status … watching TV, sleeping, and consuming other types of leisure. We find that poor health status results in about 300 additional … also find that, for men, better health induces a substitution of market-produced goods for home-produced goods …

elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …

concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the literature … product of hourly wages and labor supply in terms of hours and weeks worked. In addition to inequality in labor market …