We estimate the effect of breast cancer on labour market participation, up to five years after the cancer onset. The causal inference is systematically confounded by differences in age, education, past health and the past history in the labour market. We account for all these issues thanks to an...

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed and, at the same time, working affects the health...