ArticleHealth economics2023
Does paid sick leave encourage staying at home? Evidence from the United States during a pandemic.
Article in Health economics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mechanics of pandemics.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- Premature termination of unemployment benefits increased COVID-19 transmission and deaths in the USA.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Non-standard employment, paid sick leave, and income loss during COVID-19 self-isolation: cross-sectional findings from South Korea.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Promoting public health with blunt instruments: Evidence from vaccine mandates.Labour economics · 2025Article
- Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Crowding-in.Journal of the European Economic Association · 2025Article
- The effects of state paid sick leave mandates on parental childcare time.Journal of health economics · 2025Article
- The Impact of Employment Status, Income, and Occupation on the Association Between Workplace Benefits and Health-Related Work Absences.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Article
- Learning from employer experiences with paid leave policy expansions during the COVID-19 pandemic.Health affairs scholar · 2024Article
- Health and non-health benefits and equity impacts of individual-level economic relief programs during epidemics/pandemics in high income settings: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- State paid sick leave mandates associated with increased mental health disorder prescriptions among Medicaid enrollees.Health affairs scholar · 2024Article
- The impact of state paid sick leave policies on weekday workplace mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic.Public health · 2023Observational
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Abstract
We study the impact of a temporary U.S. paid sick leave mandate that became effective April 1st, 2020 on self-quarantining, proxied by physical mobility behaviors gleaned from cellular devices. We study this policy using generalized difference-in-differences methods, leveraging pre-policy county-level heterogeneity in the share of workers likely eligible for paid sick leave benefits. We find that the policy leads to increased self-quarantining as proxied by staying home. We also find that COVID-19 confirmed cases decline post-policy.
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