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share of the link is explained by education attainments and co-morbid health conditions and behaviors. The results also show …
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We estimate the effect of poor child health on the labor supply of mothers and fathers post welfare reform, using a … potential endogeneity of child health and find that having a young child in poor health reduces the mother's probability of … working, the mother's hours of work, and the father's hours of work. These results suggest that children's health problems may …
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In this paper, we take a structural approach to investigate the effects of wages and working hours on health behaviors …
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Relying on data from the Health and Retirement Study, we examine differences between breast cancer survivors and a non … underlying our estimates especially selection based on information in the Health and Retirement Study, and examine related …
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Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with an increased risk of childhood obesity. This paper explores mechanisms for that correlation. We estimate models of instrumental variables using a unique dataset, the American Time Use Survey, that measure the effect of...
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preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. The former are 1) responses to … measurement error in these 'objective, self-reported' measures of health. Our analysis makes use of a unique data set that matches … a variety of self-reports of health with respondents' medical records. Our findings are striking. For example, the ratio …
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This paper examines the effect of antidepressant use on the likelihood of being employed among HIV-positive women receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the United States from 1994 to 2004. We use instrumental variables to predict antidepressant use independently of outcomes;...
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claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall …
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We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the … labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is likely …
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This paper uses recently released data from a national longitudinal sample to present new evidence of the longer term effects of adolescent depression on labor market outcomes. Results suggest reductions in labor force attachment of approximately 5 percentage points and earnings reductions of...
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