Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …

This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on …) based on entropy balancing and focus on unemployment due to plant closures. Using German panel data, we show that the effect … of unemployment varies across the distribution of public social activities. It is large and negative for individuals in …

Although unemployment likely entails various externalities, research examining its spillover effects on spouses is … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German … Socio-Economic Panel data, we combine matching and difference-in-differences estimation, employing the post …

-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy is robust against selection on observables and time-invariant unobservables …-in-difference estimator. The findings are robust over various matching specifications and different choices of the conditioning variables. …

-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy is robust against selection on observables and time-invariant unobservables …-in-difference estimator. The findings are robust over various matching specifications and different choices of the conditioning variables. …

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …

This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … difference-in-differences setting in combination with an entropy balancing matching procedure. The paper considers plant closures …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … difference-in-differences setting in combination with an entropy balancing matching procedure. The paper considers plant closures …