The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of … working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …

effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al … in similar health/with equal cognitive performance. Contrary to existing papers, this one uses international, European …, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …

Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … status reported by US workers, using the 2014-2016 Eating and Health (EH) Module of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We …

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … arguably exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a positive … effect of working hours on smoking and a negative effect on self-reported health. Results are robust to accounting for …