outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine … headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours …

outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine … headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours …

weight has a negative effect on wages for women but a positive effect for men, whereas in the public sector body weight has … no influence on wages for either men or women. …This paper analyzes the relationship between three body weight measures and employment status and wages, thereby …

Gender disparities in wages among professionals exist because women begin their professional careers making less than …

and women. Spouses’ ill-health is likely to affect their partner’s labor supply decision in off-setting ways. I control …This dissertation is composed of three essays which examine the effects of health on labor market outcomes. Chapter 1 … reviews the literature on health and the labor market. It also emphasizes the inherent endogeneity of health when included in …

/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more …This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a … likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health. …

during pregnancy on newborn health. In this paper, I exploit three sharp policy changes on the duration of paid parental … data from Austria on the working history of women linked to the full Austrian birth register and coupled with a regression … changes in prenatal employment translated into effects on newborn health measured via birth weight, gestational length, and …

during pregnancy on newborn health. In this paper, I exploit three sharp policy changes on the duration of paid parental … data from Austria on the working history of women linked to the full Austrian birth register and coupled with a regression … changes in prenatal employment translated into effects on newborn health measured via birth weight, gestational length, and …

/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more …This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a … likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health …

This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male … occupations for most of the period of analysis. However, the analysis finds no consistent, significant changes in wages based on …