absence and mental health, obtained through rich registry data. Our results show that gender does not significantly explain …

conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related absenteeism arises from differences between the …, for example because of gender differences in risk preferences. These differences may originate from the utility … existence of gender-specific preferences for abstenteeism and subsequently test for the household investment hypothesis. We find …

conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related absenteeism arises from differences between the …, for example because of gender differences in risk preferences. These differences may originate from the utility … existence of gender-specific preferences for absenteeism and subsequently test for the household investment hypothesis. We find …

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and …