biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of … don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation than working …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

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 …