Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics, University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (email: )
2. Department of Economics, University of Delaware (email: )
Abstract
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. (JEL I12, J24, J31)
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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