outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine … headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours …

norms on wages. Our approach allows for disentangling the influence of the social norm from any (anticipated) productivity …

share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are ….We interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …

nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …

workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate … that individuals in workplaces where women are a majority tend to report worse health than individuals employed in male …We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more …This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a … likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health …

collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …