scholarly journals Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora Costa
Keyword(s):  
Health Shocks

scholarly journals The effects of health shocks on family status: do financial incentives encourage marriage?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andree Ehlert
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Female Partners ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
German Socioeconomic Panel ◽  
Unobserved Effects ◽  
Traditional Marriage

AbstractThis paper asks whether marriage decisions of unmarried mature couples are driven by the prospect of financial advantages for the later widowed after one partner has suffered a serious health shock. We hypothesize that, in contrast to traditional marriage models, such health shocks may induce unmarried couples to obtain economic benefits, such as survivors’ pensions in particular, through marriage in advance of one partner’s death. This question has not yet been studied empirically. Hazard models capturing unobserved effects are applied to longitudinal data of the German Socioeconomic Panel. It turns out that the probability of marriage after male partners’ health shocks can increase significantly depending on the amount of expected survivors’ pensions for the (likely) surviving female partners. In contrast, an increased probability of marriage after health shocks to women (depending on the expected financial benefits to men) was not found. These findings are supported by various robustness checks. Economic and political implications are discussed and the results are placed in an international context.

scholarly journals Mothers' Care: Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Bellés-Obrero ◽  
Antonio Cabrales ◽  
Sergi Jimenez-Martin ◽  
Judit Vall-Castello
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Parental Investments ◽  
Early Childhood 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 The Spending Responses to Adverse Health Shocks: Evidence from a Panel of Colombian Households

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darwin Cortes ◽  
Andrés Gallegos ◽  
Jorge Perez Perez
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Safety Nets ◽  
Adverse Health ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Contract Type ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity

We analyze the effect of adverse health shocks on households' different expenditure shares using a difference in differences approach. We find that households engage in substitution between health and food spending in response to the negative health shocks. We find substantial heterogeneity in this trade-off between current and future health mediated by access to social protection, job contract type, and location (urban-rural). Households from rural areas, with heads holding informal jobs, and without access to safety nets, are more vulnerable than others. We discuss several policy implications.

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