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Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer / Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo, Heather L. Bednarek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradley, Cathy J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11304.
- NBER working paper series no. w11304
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is likely to dampen the labor supply response. Second, we empirically evaluate this relationship using primary data. The results from our analysis find that -- as the model suggests is likely -- health shocks decrease labor supply to a greater extent among women insured by their spouse's policy than among women with health insurance through their own employer. Employment-contingent health insurance appears to create incentives to remain working and to work at a greater intensity when faced with a serious illness.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2005.
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