The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment

被引：6
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作者：
Stephens, Melvin [1 ,2 ]
Toohey, Desmond [3 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Michigan, Dept Econ, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] Univ Delaware, Dept Econ, Newark, DE 19716 USA
来源：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS | 2022年 / 14卷 / 03期
基金：
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词：
RISK-FACTOR INTERVENTION; IRON-DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; TRIAL MRFIT; EARLY-CHILDHOOD; SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENTIALS; PROGRAM PARTICIPATION; MORTALITY RISK; PRODUCTIVITY; MEDICAID; MODEL;
D O I：
10.1257/app.20180686
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
While economists have posited that health investments increase earnings, isolating the causal effect of health is challenging due to reverse causality and unobserved heterogeneity. We examine the labor market effects of a randomized controlled trial, the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT), which monitored nearly 13,000 men for over six years. We find that this intervention, which provided a bundle of treatments to reduce coronary heart disease mortality, increased earnings and family income. We find few differences in estimated gains by baseline health and occupation characteristics.
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页码：367 / 399
页数：33
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