Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …

market wage and a lower bargaining power within the family with respect to sons. Consequently, they provide more informal …. Transfers within the family should be distorted in both types of families. …

This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we … assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between … adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care …

insurance and saving amounts. Agents differ in income, probability of becoming dependent and of receiving family help. Social … agents determines whether they prefer social or private insurance. Family support crowds out the demand for both social and …, especially, private insurance, as strong prospects of family help drive the demand for private insurance to zero. The …

relevant waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1996-2010), we exploit the exogenous variation in the form of wealth shocks … resulting from the value of housing assets, to examine the effect of wealth on use of home health, unpaid help and nursing home … care by older adults. We find a significant increase in the use of paid home health care and unpaid informal care but no …

affected in terms of parental health, labor market outcomes and separations. Limited effects on family disposable income … propensity score matching and controlling for pre-displacement outcomes. Our overall conclusion is positive: childhood health … with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. …

1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the … not for females. This effect persists when we include controls for onset of other health conditions, two of which are …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …