TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Angelini, Viola
AU  - Costa-Font, Joan
        TI  - Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis
        PY  - 2023/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16209
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16209
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - cancer
KW  - family spillovers
KW  - health behaviors
KW  - household well-being
KW  - employment
KW  - loneliness
KW  - welfare effects
        ER  -