effects of the minimum wage on child health. We employ data from the National Survey of Children's Health in conjunction with … health. A particularly interesting finding is that much of the benefits of a higher minimum wage are associated with the …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …

, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with …

In this paper, we specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the interplay among health, financial resources … used self reported health or disability status as a proxy for health status, we model health as a latent variable, using … is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. We compare results based on our model to results based on …

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 … how the timing of health shocks affects labor force behavior. Controlling for lagged values of health, poor …

We use the first wave of the Health and Retirement Survey to study the effect of health on the labor force activity of … Black and White men and women in their 50s. The evidence we present confirms the notion that health is an extremely … important determinant of early labor force exit. Our estimates suggest that health differences between Blacks and Whites can …

Investigators of social differentials in health outcomes commonly augment incomplete micro data by appending … characteristics of interest. We build on recent work addressing the biases inherent in proxies and consider two health … Dynamics and the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey are linked to census data. We assess the validity of using the …

Data from the National Health Interview Survey and elsewhere showed a trend toward worsening self-reported health among …-specific mortality observed since the 1960s - led some researchers to suggest that, on average, the health of the older population is … declining. We examine recent trends in self-reported health and find that the health declines observed during the 1970s …

Labor supply estimates are sensitive to the measures of health used. When self reported measures are used health seems … incorporating both self-reported and objective measures of health. I use the model to show the potential biases involved in using … either measure of health or in using one to instrument the other- When outside information on the validity of self …