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Journal: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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J Pol Anal Manage

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Wiley-Blackwell

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1520-6688

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  • Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave
    Item type: Journal Article
    Pichler, Stefan; Wen, Katherine; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (2021)
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
    A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well as pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality rates in the United States. Using uniquely compiled data from administrative sources at the state-week level from 2010 to 2018 along with difference-in-differences methods, we present quasi-experimental evidence that sick pay mandates have causally reduced doctor-certified ILI rates at the population level. On average, ILI rates fell by about 11 percent or 290 ILI cases per 100,000 patients per week in the first year.
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