Published in:
Economics and Human Biology 2015 16 p.p. 73-80.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2014.01.002
Abstract:
Based on administrative register data from Norway, we examine the impact of hours of daylight on sick-leave absences among workers. Our preferred estimates imply that an additional hour of daylight increases the daily entry rate to absenteeism by 0.5 percent and the corresponding recovery rate by 0.8 percent, ceteris paribus. The overall relationship between absenteeism and daylight hours is negative.