The Effects of Health Events on the Economic Status of Married Couples
利用外生健康冲击数据，区分健康变化对已婚夫妇收入、财富和消费的不同影响渠道，发现女性健康冲击对家庭财富的负面影响比男性更大，主要原因是妻子重病时家庭生活开支增加。
There is a growing literature showing the relationship between health and economic status, though little research has focused on distinguishing between the effects for men and women. I use measures of exogenous health “shocks” to identify the different channels through which changes in health conditions affect income, wealth and consumption behavior of couples. The results indicate that serious health conditions have strong effects on household wealth, but that the effects for women are larger and more significant than the effects for men. The source of the asymmetry arises from the fact that general living expenses increase when wives become seriously ill, while for husbands, health shocks do not affect theses expenditures.