Xu, Xiao; Jensen, Gail A. - In: Applied Economics 44 (2012) 35, pp. 4591-4603
The objective of this article is to examine whether having health insurance reduces illness-related absenteeism among older workers. A nationally representative sample of 1780 workers in the United States, aged 52--64, are drawn from the 2004--2006 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Binary...