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 …

In this paper, we take a structural approach to investigate the effects of wages and working hours on health behaviors …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We examine the first-order internal effects of unemployment on a range of health behaviors during the most recent … health behaviors, across the intensive and extensive margins, across the outcome distribution, and across gender. …