Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

unemployment insurance: private and public provision of employment insurance are substitutes. …We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we … rely on differences between family and non-family firms to identify the supply of insurance, and exploit variation in …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …, there is no evidence of an added-worker effect but government insurance and income pooling can mitigate the pass-through of …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …

Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the …