Arbeitspapier

The Effect of Working Hours on Health

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the standard workweek from 39 to 35 hours, at constant earnings. Our empirical analysis exploits variation in the adoption of this shorter workweek across employers, which is mainly driven by institutional features of the reform and thus arguably exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a positive effect of working hours on smoking and a negative effect on self-reported health. Results are robust to accounting for endogenous job mobility and differ by workers' occupations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CINCH Series ; No. 2017/03

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health Behavior
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Thema
Working Hours
Health
Smoking
BMI

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Berniell, Iéns
Bietenbeck, Jan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2017

DOI
doi:10.17185/duepublico/70965
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Berniell, Iéns
  • Bietenbeck, Jan
  • University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center

Entstanden

  • 2017

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