This study on the labour supply decisions of married women by Dr Lixin Cai is the first to be published under the Commission's Visiting Researcher Papers series. This program supports research that is relevant to the Commission's own work program and provides an opportunity for Commission staff...

A concern when estimating the effect of health on labour supply is that health might be endogenous, and in particular that people might use poor health to justify non-participation. This would result in the effect of health being overestimated if health were treated as exogenous. The paper...