How Do Health Shocks Impact Labor Supply? Gender Matters

In the developing world missing work due to illness often means poor families struggle. Since few jobs offer paid sick

Workers with Eye-Care Coverage Tend to Work More Hours and Have More Highly Compensated Positions

While poor vision has the potential to decrease workplace productivity, little is known about the actual connection between access to

On average, across OECD countries, one in seven young people (15–29 years old) is neither employed nor pursuing education or

Greenhouse gases accumulating in the earth’s atmosphere are poised to raise global temperatures considerably in a relatively short period of

Pneumonia infection is a leading cause of illness in children worldwide, but we know little about its long-term consequences. Economists

In the turmoil of the Great Recession, the Spanish government reduced the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in relation

In the United States, the opioid epidemic has had dramatic adverse effects—in 2017 alone there were over 45,000 overdose deaths

States subsidize public higher education with the goal of building an educated workforce. But college-educated workers can and often do

Evidence suggests that government subsidies typically increase school attendance and at the same time decrease paid work by children. The

Economists have been studying how minimum wage increases affect employment for a long time, but indexing the minimum wage to