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 …

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health equality …. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … health are unlikely to reflect differential help-seeking behavior across the sexes or the biological effects of giving birth …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

We construct a unified objective measure of health status: the frailty index, defined as the cumulative sum of all … adverse health indicators observed for an individual. First, we show that the frailty index has several advantages over self …-reported health status, particularly when studying health dynamics. Then we estimate a stochastic process for frailty dynamics over …

for job loss having an impact on health behavior, diabetes progression and cardiovascular risk factors. …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …