Family Health Behaviors
利用行政数据研究健康冲击如何通过家庭溢出效应影响配偶、成年子女甚至同事的预防性医疗和健康行为，发现这些反应显著且持久，显著性机制是主要解释。
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.