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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Stephens, Melvin; Toohey, Desmond
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Delaware
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20180686
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 367-399
• 关键词: risk-factor intervention; iron-deficiency anemia; trial mrfit; early-childhood; socioeconomic differentials; program participation; mortality risk; PRODUCTIVITY; medicaid; MODEL

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.