Bhattacharya, Jay; Lakdawalla, Darius Noshir - In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy 9 (2006) 2
We analyze the value to the labor force of improvements in survival and health over the years 1970 to 1999. We find that survival gains and reductions in the number of work-days missed due to poor health have added about 8 percent to the remaining labor force value of black males, and about the...