Averett, Susan; Biener, Adam; Ogrokhina, Olena - 2024
This paper explores the relationship between gender wage gaps and women's overall health. Using data from the 2011 …-2019 Current Population Survey, we employ entropy balancing to create comparable samples of men and women and estimate wage gaps ….2 percent reduction in women reporting poor or fair health, equivalent to nearly 170,000 fewer women. These effects are more …