scholarly journals The Effects of Parental Health Shocks on Adult Offspring Smoking Behavior and Self-Assessed Health

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 939-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Darden ◽  
Donna Gilleskie
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Adult Offspring ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Parental Health ◽  
Self Assessed Health

scholarly journals Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Children's Non-Cognitive Skills

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Westermaier ◽  
Brant Morefield ◽  
Andrea Mühlenweg
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Parental Health

scholarly journals Exploring Alternate Processes Contributing to the Association Between Maternal Smoking and the Smoking Behavior Among Young Adult Offspring

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 1873-1882 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Selya ◽  
L. S. Wakschlag ◽  
L. C. Dierker ◽  
J. S. Rose ◽  
D. Hedeker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Maternal Smoking ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Adult Offspring

PARENTAL MORBIDITY, CHILD WORK, AND HEALTH INSURANCE IN RWANDA

2016 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maame Esi Woode ◽  
Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah ◽  
Raouf Boucekkine
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
System Development ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Substitution Effect ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Child Work ◽  
Parental Health ◽  
Hurdle Models

AbstractMeasuring direct and indirect effects of extending health insurance coverage in developing countries is a key issue for health system development and for attaining universal health coverage. This paper investigates the role played by health insurance in the relationship between parental morbidity and child work decisions. We use a propensity score matching technique combined with hurdle models, using data from Rwanda. The results show that parental health shocks have a substantial influence on child work when households do not have health insurance. Depending on the gender of the sick parent, there is a substitution effect not only between the parent and the child on the labor market, but also between the time the child spends on different work activities. Altogether, results reveal that health insurance protects children against child work in the presence of parental health shocks.

Parental health and child behavior: evidence from parental health shocks

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea M. Mühlenweg ◽  
Franz G. Westermaier ◽  
Brant Morefield
Keyword(s):  
Child Behavior ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Parental Health

scholarly journals Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Children's Non-Cognitive Skills

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Westermaier ◽  
Brant Morefield ◽  
Andrea Mühlenweg
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Parental Health

scholarly journals Changes in Smoking Behaviors following Exposure to Health Shocks in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Wang ◽  
John Rizzo ◽  
Hai Fang
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Status ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Heavy Smoking ◽  
Random Effects Models ◽  
Smoking Behaviors ◽  
Spousal Health

Background: Evidence suggests that following major individual health shocks, smokers change their smoking behaviors. However, little is known about the association between spousal health shocks and smoking. This study examined the contemporaneous and long-term effects of individual and spousal health shocks on males’ smoking behaviors in China. Methods: This study employed a nation-wide data base from the 1991–2011 China Health and Nutrition Study. Random effects models were estimated to ascertain the impacts of health shocks on males’ smoking behavior. Smoking behaviors were measured by smoking status, smoking consumption and smoking cessation. Results: In the short term, respondents who incurred health shocks decreased their likelihood of smoking by 10%. In addition, health shocks decreased the likelihood of heavy smoking versus the combined moderate and light categories by 41.6%, and increased their likelihood of quitting by 85.3% for ever smokers. Spousal health shocks had no significant effects on individual smoking behaviors. The long-term effects were similar to the short term impacts. Conclusions: People changed their smoking behaviors in response to their own health experiences but not those of their spouses. Antismoking messages about the health effects on others are unlikely to influence individual smoking behaviors, unless individuals believed that they are personally vulnerable to smoking-related diseases.

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