To study hiring discrimination against cancer survivors, we conduct a vignette experiment in which American and British …-employment due to suffering from cancer. We study the effect of cancer experiences on the recruiters' hiring decisions, as well as …. We find that employment opportunities are lower for candidates with a history of cancer, compared to candidates without …

profession where stakes are high; advanced cancer surgery. For this purpose, we introduce a novel instrument that exploits the … closure and opening of entire cancer clinics which have given rise to sharp and exogenous changes in the cancer surgical … volumes at Swedish public sector hospitals. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 episodes of advanced cancer …

There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations …. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …

negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer … substantially for 3-4 years following a child's cancer diagnosis. Fathers' incomes recover fully, but mothers' incomes remain 3 …

Objectives: To synthesise the existing reviews conducted on the labour market outcomes of cancer survivors by focusing … existing reviews on labour market outcomes for cancer survivors was performed. Bibliographic search for eligible studies … published before January 2019 involved the following three core concepts: (i) cancer survivors, (ii) work, and (iii) review. The …

(restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer …

consequences of health shocks or the mechanisms behind the spillover effects. We analyse the short- and long-term effects of cancer … breadwinner type). We use full population register data on all cancer patients and their cohabiting partners in Finland over the … period 1995-2019. Our identification strategy is based on the quasi-random variation in the timing of the cancer diagnosis …