@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17277,
            	author={Averett, Susan L. and Biener, Adam and Ogrokhina, Olena},
            	title={Equal Pay for Better Health: The Health Cost of the Gender Wage Gap},
            	year={2024},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={17277},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17277},
	abstract={This paper explores the relationship between gender wage gaps and women's overall health. Using data from the 2011-2019 Current Population Survey, we employ entropy balancing to create comparable samples of men and women and estimate wage gaps for full-time employed working-age women. Adjusting for individual, occupation, and industry characteristics, we estimate the association between wage gaps and self-rated health. Our results suggest that closing the wage gap results in a 1.2 percent reduction in women reporting poor or fair health, equivalent to nearly 170,000 fewer women. These effects are more pronounced for women with below-median wages or in male-dominated jobs.},
	keywords={wage gap;health;women},
            }