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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CINCH Series ; No. 2017/03
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health Behavior
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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Working Hours
Health
Smoking
BMI
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Berniell, Iéns
Bietenbeck, Jan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center
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Essen
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2017
- DOI
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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