Konferenzbeitrag
Honey, why don't you see a doctor? Spousal impact on health behavior
Married individuals are usually found to be in better health than singles but it is not fully known why. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we test one possible explanation, namely that two spouses encourage each other to a health-promoting behavior and monitor it. Therefore, we analyze the direct spousal impact on seeking medical advice, physical activity, and eating habits controlling for selection, positive assortative mating, and shared unobserved influences of the environment. While we find no causal effect regarding a health-conscious diet, the impact of the partner's doing sports is substantial. Moreover, females affect their male spouses in seeking medical advice but not the other way around. The latter result may explain why men usually benefit more from marriages than women.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Economic Aspects of Health ; No. B18-V3
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Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Health Behavior
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- Subject
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Couples
health behavior
simultaneous equations models
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Neimann, Stefanie
Schmitz, Hendrik
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Veröffentlichung
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Verein für Socialpolitik
- (where)
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Frankfurt a. M.
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Konferenzbeitrag
Associated
- Neimann, Stefanie
- Schmitz, Hendrik
- Verein für Socialpolitik
Time of origin
- 2010
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