PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Richard Blundell
AU  - Jack Britton
AU  - Monica Costa Dias
AU  - Eric French
TI  - The Impact of Health on Labor Supply Near Retirement
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.58.3.1217-9240R4
DP  - 2021 Jan 19
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 1217-9240R4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/11/04/jhr.58.3.1217-9240R4.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/11/04/jhr.58.3.1217-9240R4.full
AB  - Estimates of how health affects employment vary considerably. We assess how different methods and health measures impact estimates of the impact of health on employment using a unified framework for the US and England. We find that subjective and objective health measures, and subjective measures instrumented by objective measures produce similar estimates when using sufficiently rich objective measures. Moreover, a single health index can capture the relevant health variation for employment. Health deterioration explains up to 15% of the decline in employment between ages 50 and 70. Effects are larger for the US than England, and for the low educated.