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The Effect of Cancer on the Employment of Older Males: Attenuating Selection Bias using a High Risk Sample

Author(s)
Candon, David  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6506
Date Issued
2015-03
Date Available
2015-04-21T14:52:06Z
Abstract
Estimating the unbiased effect of health shocks on employment is an important topic in both health and labour economics. This is particularly relevant to cancer, where improvements in screening and treatments have led to increases in survival for nearly all types of cancer. In order to address the issue of selection bias, I estimate the effect of cancer on employment for a high-risk cancer sample, male workers over the age of 65, thus attenuating the impact of many cancer risk factors. This identification strategy balances the covariates between the cancer and the non-cancer groups in numerous tests. Respondents who are diagnosed with cancer are 13.2 percentage points less likely to work than their non-cancer counterparts. The results also appear insensitive to omitted confounders.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Start Page
1
End Page
36
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP2015/07
Copyright (Published Version)
2015 the author
Subjects

Cancer

Employment

Labour market

Classification
I10
I18
J21
J26
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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