Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270567 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CINCH Series No. 2017/03
Publisher: 
University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center, Essen
Abstract: 
Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the standard workweek from 39 to 35 hours, at constant earnings. Our empirical analysis exploits variation in the adoption of this shorter workweek across employers, which is mainly driven by institutional features of the reform and thus arguably exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a positive effect of working hours on smoking and a negative effect on self-reported health. Results are robust to accounting for endogenous job mobility and differ by workers' occupations.
Subjects: 
Working Hours
Health
Smoking
BMI
JEL: 
I10
I12
J22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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