TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of Health on Labor Supply Near Retirement JF - Journal of Human Resources DO - 10.3368/jhr.58.3.1217-9240R4 SP - 1217-9240R4 AU - Richard Blundell AU - Jack Britton AU - Monica Costa Dias AU - Eric French Y1 - 2021/01/19 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/11/04/jhr.58.3.1217-9240R4.abstract N2 - 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. ER -