Are there employment and income gains of a national breast cancer screening program?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Dutch national breast cancer screening program invites women aged 50-75 for screening. By detecting the disease in an early phase, the program aims to achieve lower breast cancer mortality and improve breast cancer survivors' health. Arguably, the latter also improves the employability of diagnosed women.

Objective

This study investigates the effects of the Dutch national breast cancer screening program on diagnosed women's employment and income.

Methods

The empirical analysis uses data of 229,357 women aged 40-59, of whom 10,515 were diagnosed with breast cancer at an age in the range 47-53. A regression-based difference-in-differences estimator is used to identify program effects by comparing outcomes for women diagnosed at ages 47-49 with the outcome

SUBMITTER: Kambourova Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9210695 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature