"demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior …

This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are …-in-law, but a parent-in-law's functional limitation does not directly affect the daughter-in-law's health. We compare results for … sample. Our results show that providing informal care has significant adverse effects along multiple dimensions of health for …

insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan …

health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … in the state of poor health rather than dying …

The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a number of family characteristics and the health of … white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and … seldom statistically significant. Indeed, some health problems -- high blood pressure, allergies, and tension -- are more …

I consider the health, family structure, and labor supply inter-relationships at both a theoretical and empirical level … family time allocation among market, home, and health activities is developed. The concept of a family health maintenance … in poor health responses. A simultaneous model of male labor supply and other family income (chiefly transfer income and …

of access to health-related expertise - captured by the presence of a health professional in the extended family - on … intra-family medical expertise has far-reaching health consequences, at all ages: It raises longevity, improves drug …Mounting evidence documents a stark correlation between income and health, yet the causal mechanisms behind this …

economic shocks on the family's out-of-pocket health care spending burden. We define this burden as the share of family income … devoted to out-of-pocket health care spending. In contrast to static, cross-sectional analyses, our study examines how the … within-family change in spending burden over the two-year MEPS observation period responds to losses in family income …

We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to estimate the effects of poor infant health, pre …-pregnancy health conditions of the mother, and the father's health status on health insurance status of urban, mostly unmarried …, mothers and their one-year-old children. Virtually all births were covered by health insurance, but one year later about one …

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are … many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely …