Family Health Behaviors

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fadlon, Itzik; Nielsen, Torben Heien
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Copenhagen
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20171993
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 3162-3191
• 关键词: PRIMARY PREVENTION; Spousal health; UNITED-STATES; TASK-FORCE; PHARMACOTHERAPY; GUIDELINES; addiction; ECONOMICS; DECISION; SALIENCE

摘要

We study how health behaviors are shaped through family spillovers. We leverage administrative data to identify the effects of health shocks on family members' consumption of preventive care and health-related behaviors, constructing counterfactuals for affected households using households that experience the same shock but a few years in the future. Spouses and adult children immediately improve their health behaviors and their responses are both significant and persistent. These spillovers are far-reaching as they cascade even to coworkers. While some responses are consistent with learning information about one's own health, the evidence points to salience as a major operative explanation.