towards poor health, it would be best to have official data provided by the relevant administrative bodies. But we argue that …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious … correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first … contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health …

This paper uses a labor supply model that incorporates waiting for health care to derive an empirical specification for … sick leave and to estimate the impact of waiting for health care on the duration of sick leave. In the estimations, we use … that almost all waiting for health care variables have a statistically significant positive impact on the duration of sick …