Will knowing diabetes affect labor income? Evidence from a natural experiment

Xiaoou Liu and Chen Zhu

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 1, 74-78

Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of diabetes awareness on labor income using data from a natural experiment in China. We find that diabetes in general leads to a 16.3% decrease in annual income after people being diagnosed, and the adverse impact is heterogeneous across different populations.

Keywords: Diabetes; Income; Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c); Natural experiment; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I18 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.04.019

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