Health care facilities considering mandating staff vaccination face a difficult tradeoff. While additional vaccination … typical facility has around 100 beds. Our results suggest that the health benefits of mandates far outweigh the costs in terms …

compensated time off for employee health-related needs, while workers' compensation offers benefits to help workers recover from … health, there are no observed reductions in workplace injury rates specifically, indicating that workers may substitute PSL …

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 …

conditions seem to have been important driving forces during the entire period. In contrast changes in health do not seem to … share of the population reporting ill health or disability or to the number claiming benefits. We also find evidence that …

We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self …

The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non …

-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …