Other-regarding preferences, spousal disability and happiness: evidence from German couples
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2009. (Working paper series in economics; No. 130).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Other-regarding preferences, spousal disability and happiness
T2 - evidence from German couples
AU - Braakmann, Nils
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 10 - 12
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual’s partner on subjective well-being. Using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006, I compare the losses in well-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by spousal disability which is consistent with the existence of other-regarding preferences within couples. The magnitude of effects suggests that spousal disability is about one quarter to one half as harmful as individual disability with larger effects being found for women.
AB - This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual’s partner on subjective well-being. Using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006, I compare the losses in well-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by spousal disability which is consistent with the existence of other-regarding preferences within couples. The magnitude of effects suggests that spousal disability is about one quarter to one half as harmful as individual disability with larger effects being found for women.
KW - Economics
KW - disability
KW - subjective well-being
KW - other-regarding prefernces
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in economics
BT - Other-regarding preferences, spousal disability and happiness
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -