accounting for performance on the job. Evidence suggests that simple statistical discrimination, and not just taste … discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample … is higher than men's, simple statistical discrimination cannot explain the sex gap. In more complex models of statistical …

We study how men's dependence on their own employer for health insurance affects labor supply responses and loss of … health insurance coverage when faced with a serious health shock. Men with employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) are … more likely to remain working following some kinds of adverse health shocks, and are more likely to lose insurance. With …