Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is …

otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work for health reasons. Our estimates suggest Covid-19 illnesses have …

This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in … families' health and labor market outcomes, and construct counterfactuals to affected households by using households that … experience the same shock but a few years in the future. We find that fatal health shocks lead to an immediate increase in the …

cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program …-based eligibility accumulated more Medicaid eligibility in childhood but did not differ on a range of other health, socioeconomic, and … extensive margin labor supply, and reduces receipt of disability transfer programs and public health insurance up to 50 years …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this … paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement … decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick …

benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this … market if they wanted to and if they were not limited by poor health? To answer this question, we follow two different … empirical approaches with a similar logic: we estimate the link between health and labor force participation in a population …

million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The same growth occurred in the Netherlands, Germany, and South Korea. The … firefighters, health-care workers, and in eating/drinking places. Based on an equilibrium model of its prevalence, we show that it …

multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health …China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the …