TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-term employment effects of surviving cancer
AU - Moran, John R.
AU - Short, Pamela Farley
AU - Hollenbeak, Christopher S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the American Cancer Society (Grant No. RSGHP-08-140-01-CPHPS ) and the National Cancer Institute (Grant No. R01 CA82619 ). The authors are indebted to the Penn State Cancer Survivor Survey's Patient Advisory Committee; Witold Rybka and Margaret Davitt (Milton S. Hershey Medical Center), James Evans and Sharon Reeder (Geisinger Medical Center), Gregory Harper and Andrea Geshan (Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network), and James Zabora and Barbara Abdullah (The Johns Hopkins Hospital) for advice and patient recruiting; the Survey and Epidemiology Services division of Social and Scientific Systems, Inc. of Silver Spring, MD for conducting the interviews; Cindy Mitchell for programming assistance; and Laura Argys, Cathy Bradley, Helen Levy, Edward Norton, Jeannette Rogowski, Barbara Schone, two anonymous referees, and participants at the 2009 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, the 2009 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, the Michigan Meeting on Cancer Health Disparities, and the 3rd Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, for helpful comments.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - We compare employment and usual hours of work for prime-age cancer survivors from the Penn State Cancer Survivor Survey to a comparison group drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using cross-sectional and difference-in-differences regression and matching estimators. Because earlier research has emphasized workers diagnosed at older ages, we focus on employment effects for younger workers. We find that as long as two to six years after diagnosis, cancer survivors have lower employment rates and work fewer hours than other similarly aged adults.
AB - We compare employment and usual hours of work for prime-age cancer survivors from the Penn State Cancer Survivor Survey to a comparison group drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using cross-sectional and difference-in-differences regression and matching estimators. Because earlier research has emphasized workers diagnosed at older ages, we focus on employment effects for younger workers. We find that as long as two to six years after diagnosis, cancer survivors have lower employment rates and work fewer hours than other similarly aged adults.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.02.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 21429606
AN - SCOPUS:79957887212
SN - 0167-6296
VL - 30
SP - 505
EP - 514
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
IS - 3
ER -
