This paper provides the first estimates of the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on drug overdose deaths. Exploiting both time-series and cross-sectional variation in UI generosity generated by federal and state UI laws, we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in UI generosity...

Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative features. First, it utilizes a novel "double proof" approach of addressing the reverse causality that tracks only healthy individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that...

Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market...