Hosseini, Roozbeh; Kopecky, Karen A.; Zhao, Kai - 2021
Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect …. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality … words, the SSDI program is an important contributor to lifetime earnings inequality. Despite this, we show that it is ex …