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 …

of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the … health surveys, complemented by administrative data (morbidity rates of the employed and unemployed) and data from the …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short … and behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health, we find that education has a … protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health behaviors - measured …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …