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Reporting sick: are sporting events contagious?
Author(s) -
Thoursie Peter Skogman
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied econometrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.878
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1099-1255
pISSN - 0883-7252
DOI - 10.1002/jae.758
Subject(s) - moral hazard , sick leave , hazard , event (particle physics) , order (exchange) , actuarial science , psychology , sick child , social psychology , economics , medicine , pediatrics , labour economics , finance , incentive , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , microeconomics
Moral hazard is easy to justify theoretically but difficult to detect empirically. Individuals may report sick due to illness as well as for moral hazard reasons. Potential abuse of the sickness insurance system in Sweden is estimated by comparing the change between the number of men and women who report sick during a popular sporting event and a preceding time period. Difference‐in‐differences estimates provide clear evidence that the number of men who reported sick increased in order to watch the sporting event on television. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.