@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp16209,
            	author={Angelini, Viola and Costa-Font, Joan},
            	title={Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis},
            	year={2023},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={16209},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16209},
	abstract={Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer diagnosis (CD), on the health and well- being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of individuals over fifty from 19 European countries. Our estimates provide economically relevant evidence of the spillovers of a CD on the partner's mental health and well-being. We document a negative association between a partner's CD and several measures of well-being, which is not driven by changes in health behaviors and persists over time for some dimensions. These findings suggest that focusing on the individual economic impact of a CD is likely to underestimate its long-term welfare effects unless spillovers on the emotional support network are considered.},
	keywords={cancer;family spillovers;health behaviors;household well-being;employment;loneliness;welfare effects},
            }