%0 Report
        %A Angelini, Viola
%A Costa-Font, Joan
        %T Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16209
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16209
        %X 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.
        %K cancer
%K family spillovers
%K health behaviors
%K household well-being
%K employment
%K loneliness
%K welfare effects