Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana

Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in whic...

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Main Authors:	Heath, Rachel, Mansuri, Ghazala, Rijkers, Bob
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2019
Subjects:	LABOR SUPPLY HEALTH SHOCK LABOR MARKET URBAN LABOR
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/203631571687687334/Labor-Supply-Responses-to-Health-Shocks-Evidence-from-High-Frequency-Labor-Market-Data-from-Urban-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32619

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spelling	okr-10986-326192022-09-19T12:16:32Z Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana Heath, Rachel Mansuri, Ghazala Rijkers, Bob LABOR SUPPLY HEALTH SHOCK LABOR MARKET URBAN LABOR LABOR SUPPLY Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in which another worker in the household is unexpectedly ill. The paper provides suggestive evidence that these effects are strongest among very risk averse men, men in poorer households, and men who are the highest earners in their household. By contrast, women display a net zero response to another worker's illness, even women who are the highest earners in their household. 2019-10-24T15:11:45Z 2019-10-24T15:11:45Z 2019-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/203631571687687334/Labor-Supply-Responses-to-Health-Shocks-Evidence-from-High-Frequency-Labor-Market-Data-from-Urban-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32619 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9046 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Ghana
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description	Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in which another worker in the household is unexpectedly ill. The paper provides suggestive evidence that these effects are strongest among very risk averse men, men in poorer households, and men who are the highest earners in their household. By contrast, women display a net zero response to another worker's illness, even women who are the highest earners in their household.
format	Working Paper
author	Heath, Rachel Mansuri, Ghazala Rijkers, Bob
author_facet	Heath, Rachel Mansuri, Ghazala Rijkers, Bob
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title	Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana
title_short	Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana
title_full	Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana
title_fullStr	Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana
title_full_unstemmed	Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana
title_sort	labor supply responses to health shocks : evidence from high-frequency labor market data from urban ghana
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/203631571687687334/Labor-Supply-Responses-to-Health-Shocks-Evidence-from-High-Frequency-Labor-Market-Data-from-Urban-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32619
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Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana

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