@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp13530,
            	author={Pichler, Stefan and Wen, Katherine and Ziebarth, Nicolas R.},
            	title={Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave},
            	year={2020},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={13530},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13530},
	abstract={A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well as pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality rates in the United States. Using uniquely compiled data from administrative sources at the state-week level from 2010 to 2018 along with difference-in-differences methods, we present quasi-experimental evidence that sick pay mandates have causally reduced doctor-certified ILI rates at the population level. On average, ILI rates fell by about 11 percent or 290 ILI cases per 100,000 patients per week in the first year.},
	keywords={negative externalities;sick pay mandates;population health;flu infection},
            }