We analyse the effects of ill-health on household economic outcomes in Ethiopia, using three years of household panel … expenditure and labour supply, the subsequent household coping responses, and finally the effect on household income and … productivity. Households cope by resorting to intra-household labour substitution, hiring wage labour, borrowing and depleting …

episodes on household income, medical spending, labour supply and consumption. We find that despite maintaining household … labour supply, a serious illness exerts a negative effect on household income for the poor. However, the estimates do not … leads to an increase in household debt-to-income ratios with possible detrimental effects on future consumption. …