Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records

被引:75
作者
Fadlon, Itzik [1 ,2 ]
Nielsen, Torben Heien [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Econ, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] Univ Copenhagen, Dept Econ, Copenhagen, Denmark
[4] Ctr Econ Behav & Inequal CEBI, Copenhagen, Denmark
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
HUSBANDS HEALTH; LONG-TERM; DISABILITY; INSURANCE; EMPLOYMENT; EARNINGS; WORK; CARE; CONSEQUENCES; UNEMPLOYMENT;
D O I
10.1257/app.20170604
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We provide new evidence on households' labor supply responses to fatal and severe nonfatal health shocks in the short run and medium run. To identify causal effects, we leverage administrative data on Danish families and construct counterfactuals using households that experience the same event a few years apart. Fatal events lead to considerable increases in surviving spouses' labor supply, which the evidence suggests is driven by families who experience significant income losses. Nonfatal shocks have no meaningful effects on spousal labor supply, consistent with their adequate insurance coverage. The results support self-insurance as a driving mechanism for the family labor supply responses.
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