We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital
admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study …

We systematically review the literature linking health to economic activity, particularly
education and labor market outcomes, over the lifecycle. In the first part, we review studies …

We use matching combined with difference-in-differences to identify the causal effects of
sudden illness, represented by acute hospitalizations, on employment and income up to six …

We provide new evidence on households' labor supply responses to fatal and severe
nonfatal health shocks in the short run and medium run. To identify causal effects, we …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing
the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality …

We investigate the consequences of experiencing an acute health shock, namely the first
onset of myocardial infarction, stroke or cancer, on the labour supply of older workers in …

We investigate the labour supply response to an acute health shock for individuals of all
working ages, in the post crash era, combining coarsened exact matching and entropy …

Despite municipal investments in multimodal mobility infrastructure, monomodal automotive
travel patterns still dominate work-related mobility. As policymakers aim to reduce …

We explore what health-capital theory has to offer in terms of informing and directing
research into health inequality. We argue that economic theory can help in identifying …

This article provides new evidence on heterogeneity in the impact of health shocks by using
register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We formulate a difference …