We analyze the impact of unexpected health shocks—defined as the sudden diagnosis of cancer, stroke, or heart attack … experiencing a health shock significantly increases the probability of couple dissolution by approximately 19% of the mean divorce … prevalence. This effect intensifies gradually over time rather than appearing immediately after the adverse health event …

developments in the labor market and changes in the structure and preferences of the family. The former include changes in …-market contracts and tendencies toward an insider-outsider divide in the labor market. Changes in family structure include a rise in … female labor-force participation, a decline in family stability, more variation in individual life cycles and increased …

welfare measures across regimes including information on living space and self-reported health, and relevant inequality and …

and unconditional public support for health equity policies. …

affected in terms of parental health, labor market outcomes and separations. Limited effects on family disposable income … propensity score matching and controlling for pre-displacement outcomes. Our overall conclusion is positive: childhood health … with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. …

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 …

We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … extended family relative to the parents increases. …

parents have an intrinsic preference for help in time by family members. We first show that low (resp., high) income children … income class may give no family help at all, and its elderly members would be the main beneficiaries of the introduction of … most countries. First, social transfers are dominated by help in time by the family when the intrinsic preference of …