We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in mortality from treatable causes, and especially large declines in child mortality. We find delayed childbearing, with lower intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline...

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it is a complement to the many wage discrimination studies by examining exit discrimination in the NBA using a decade's worth of data (the 1980's). White players have a 36% lower risk of being cut than black players, ceteris paribus, translating...

"Seemingly short-term labor market shocks, such as job displacements, can have persistent effects on workers' earnings, employment, job stability, consumption, and access to health insurance. A long literature suggests such changes in workers' socioeconomic conditions can have potentially...