The effect of the 2009 Influenza pandemic on absence from work
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Duarte Vásquez, Fabian
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Kadiyala, Srikanth
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Masters, Samuel H.
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Powell, David
Admission date
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2018-07-17T15:23:08Z
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2018-07-17T15:23:08Z
Publication date
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2017
Cita de ítem
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Health Econ. 26: 1682–1695 (2017)
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10.1002/hec.3485
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/149893
Abstract
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In July 2009, the World Health Organization declared the first flu pandemic in nearly 40years. Although the health effects of the pandemic have been studied, there is little research examining the labor productivity consequences. Using unique sick leave data from the Chilean private health insurance system, we estimate the effect of the pandemic on missed days of work. We estimate that the pandemic increased mean flu days missed by 0.042days per person-month during the 2009 peak winter months (June and July), representing an 800% increase in missed days relative to the sample mean. Calculations using the estimated effect imply a minimum 0.2% reduction in Chile's labor supply.
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Patrocinador
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NIH
R21 AI103741-01
RAND Bing Center for Health Economics
Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies
CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009