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Health and Retirement Effects in a Collective Consumption Model of Older Households
Lewbel, Arthur; Seitz, Shannon; Bütikofer, Aline - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2010
Using data on elderly individuals and couples, we estimate a collective model of household consumption of a variety of … health status. We identify the extent to which shared consumption of some goods by elderly married couples reduces their … husbands, taking this jointness of some consumption into account. The results are relevant for household bargaining models and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774014
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Spouses as home health workers and cooks : insights for applied research
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2023
This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285886
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Population and health policies
Schultz, T. Paul - 2009
The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to late life mortality, chronic disease, and disability, though their implications for policy remain uncertain. Both macro-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269694
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The impact of migration on family left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
This paper addresses the effects of migration on families left behind and offers new evidence on the impact of migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the effects of migration on the education and health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532139
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Are immigrants healthier than native residents? : immigrants tend to be healthier than native residents when they arrive - an advantage that dissipates with time
Neuman, Shoshana - 2014
In common anti-immigrant rhetoric, concerns are raised that immigrants bring diseases with them to the host country that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and across multiple regions and host countries has documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422429
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457824
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039591
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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583092
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159