TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ahammer, Alexander
AU  - Pruckner, Gerald J.
AU  - Stiftinger, Flora
        TI  - The Labor and Health Economics of Breast Cancer
        PY  - 2024/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17316
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17316
        AB  - We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6.2 percent lower employment, and a wage penalty of 15 percent five years after diagnosis. Although affected women sort into higher quality jobs post-diagnosis, this is offset by a reduction in working hours. We argue that the hours reduction is more likely driven by an increase in the time preference rate, meaning that patients increasingly value the present over the future, rather than by an incapacitation effect or employer discrimination.
        KW  - breast cancer
KW  - labor supply
KW  - health shocks
KW  - time discounting
        ER  -