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 …

In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …

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

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

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