【主讲】Naijia Guo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
【主题】The Long-term Impact of an Early Career Recession on Health and Health-Related Behaviors
【时间】2015年6月8日 (周一) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼602室
【语言】英文
【摘要】Using data fromthe restricted-accessNational Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we estimate thelong-termimpact of an early career recession on various health outcomes and health-related behaviorsup to age 30 for males and females by education groups. The early career recession is measuredby the unemployment rate of the graduation state in the year when the individual enters the labormarket upon receiving the highest degree. Because the timing of labor market entry could potentiallybe affected by economic conditions, we instrument the unemployment rate when entering labormarket using the state unemployment rates at age 18 and age 22. Our main findings are that first,an early career recession has an adverse impact on health outcomes and health-related behaviors ingeneral, and second, these adverse effects are especially pronounced among lower educated individuals.In particular, an early career recession increases the probability of bad health status for highschool graduates, but has no effect on college graduates; it also leads to more depression for highschool graduates than college graduates among males. We also find that a higher unemploymentrate at early career significantly increases adverse health behaviors such as smoking, heavy drinking,and illicit drug use among high school graduates, but there is no statistically significant impact oncollege graduates. In addition, different gender-education groups respond differently in time use,such as time spent on exercise, sleep, and watching TV. An early career recession also reduces dailyfruit intake for all males and unskilled females.
