PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rachel Heath
AU  - Ghazala Mansuri
AU  - Bob Rijkers
TI  - Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0618-9584R2
DP  - 2022 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 143--177
VI  - 57
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/57/1/143.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/57/1/143.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2022 Jan 01; 57
AB  - Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using ten weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, we document that men are nine percentage points more likely to work in weeks in which another worker in the household is unexpectedly ill. The paper provides suggestive evidence that these effects are strongest among very risk-averse men, men in poorer households, and men who are the highest earners in their household. By contrast, women display a net zero response to another worker’s illness, even women who are the highest earners in their household.