Wage and Labor Supply effects of Illness in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana: Instrumental Variable Estimates for Days Disabled

T. Paul Schultz

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Abstract: Sickness should make individuals less productive, but there are problems in measuring this effect. First, how is adult morbidity measured in a household survey? Second, how is the impact of morbidity on productivity inferred, if earning is partly used to improve health? Self-reported functional activity limitation due to illness is considered as an indicator of morbidity for wage earners and self employed. To deal with both the measurement and joint determination problems, an instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that reduce wages by at least 10 percent and hours by 3 of more percent.

Keywords: HEALTH; NUTRITION; MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; DISABILITY; ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR; HUMAN RESOURCES; LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY; WAGE POLICY; WAGES; GHANA; COTE D'IVOIRE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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