An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

The onset of a disability or major health shock can affect the labor supply of not only those experiencing the event … supply decisions after a spouse’s disability or health shock and the role of paid leave laws implemented in California and … participation of potential caregivers decreased after spousal work-limiting disability or chronic health condition and, to a lesser …

experience the same shock but a few years in the future. We find that fatal health shocks lead to an immediate increase in the …This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in … the short- and medium-run. To identify the causal effects of these shock realizations, we leverage administrative data on …

results follow a treatment-effects framework where we estimate the effect of a Census Shock on federal spending, income, and … per job of $30,000 per year. A complementary IV estimation strategy yields similar estimates. We also explore the …

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20 … health and income do not affect subsequent economic growth. Using their data we reject this assumption in favor of a model of …, exogenous improvements in health due to technical advances associated with the epidemiological transition appear to have …

, we find that the shock of having a child with a serious health problem increases both the father's post-birth conviction … whether an exogenous shock in life circumstances affects criminal activity. Specifically, we estimate the effects of the birth … of a child with a random and serious health problem (versus the birth of a healthy infant) on the likelihood that the …

This paper examines the influence of health conditions on academic performance during adolescence. To account for the … endogeneity of health outcomes and their interactions with risky behaviors we exploit natural variation within a set of genetic … statistical properties for ADHD, depression and obesity. They help to reveal a new dynamism from poor health to lower academic …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i … college degrees. Non-remote workers also experienced relatively worse respiratory health, which likely occurred because it was … job losses and, to a lesser extent, health losses were highest among non-remote workers from low-income households …

This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life. We … use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor … how the timing of health shocks affects labor force behavior. Controlling for lagged values of health, poor …