There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations …. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …

To study hiring discrimination against cancer survivors, we conduct a vignette experiment in which American and British …-employment due to suffering from cancer. We study the effect of cancer experiences on the recruiters' hiring decisions, as well as …. We find that employment opportunities are lower for candidates with a history of cancer, compared to candidates without …

of a high-need patient group: people diagnosed with cancer. The Australian system for these services is predominantly … costs for patients in the 12 months following on cancer diagnosis and find a large variation in these costs according to the …

. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer …

consequences of health shocks or the mechanisms behind the spillover effects. We analyse the short- and long-term effects of cancer … breadwinner type). We use full population register data on all cancer patients and their cohabiting partners in Finland over the … period 1995-2019. Our identification strategy is based on the quasi-random variation in the timing of the cancer diagnosis …

. This study examines if the annual quarter within which a patient is diagnosed with cancer has an impact on the OOP costs … the timing of cancer diagnosis has a significant impact on OOP costs. Specifically, patients diagnosed in the fourth … year. This pattern persists after controlling for different types of cancer and different stages of cancer and robustness …

and health decisions for data on womenś self-reported breast-cancer risk and screening behavior. This allows us to …

profession where stakes are high; advanced cancer surgery. For this purpose, we introduce a novel instrument that exploits the … closure and opening of entire cancer clinics which have given rise to sharp and exogenous changes in the cancer surgical … volumes at Swedish public sector hospitals. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 episodes of advanced cancer …

cancer screening program, besides the standard possibility of doing it via phone. We report quasi-experimental evidence on …