Sickness in the Family
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Using evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (H.R.S.), this paper assesses how husbands’ and wives’ labor supply is affected when their partner is in poor health. I apply methods for dealing with the endogeneity and mismeasurement of dichotomous reported health status, which can only be used with data such as are present in the H.R.S. Contrary to results from the limited work which has been previously done on this subject, I find evidence of significant reactions to spousal bad health. Men reduce labor supply by substantial amounts in response to their partners’ poor health whereas wives of ill husbands significantly increase theirs. The paper presents theoretical and statistical explanations for the different spousal responses, and explains also why these results differ from estimates in previous work.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999