Background: Less is known about the impact of cancer on household assets and household financial portfolio during which … associated with recurrence. Building upon this prediction, we examine long-term changes in household assets in response to cancer … Study, we estimated the household fixed effects regression that regresses household assets on time elapsed since cancer …

consequences of health shocks or the mechanisms behind the spillover effects. We analyse the short- and long-term effects of cancer … breadwinner type). We use full population register data on all cancer patients and their cohabiting partners in Finland over the … period 1995-2019. Our identification strategy is based on the quasi-random variation in the timing of the cancer diagnosis …

literature that considers the ways in which health-both physical and mental-impacts household finances. The review largely … or deplete the household savings, sometimes forcing household members to forego necessary consumption. This reduced … reduces household earnings and either forces other household members to work more to compensate for the earnings loss or …

the effect of spouses' cancer diagnoses on individuals' employment and earnings and on family income. Our identification … with cancer. We interpret this result as individuals reducing their labor supply to provide care to their sick spouses and … to enjoy joint leisure. Family income substantially declines after spouses' cancer diagnoses, suggesting that the …

and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We collected household survey data from Bangladesh, a country with wide … level in the respondent's tubewell (TW) and past institutional arsenic test results, as well as collected household members … arsenicosis symptom by an amount as high as the average annual household income …

Using representative household survey data, we study the short-term microeconomic effects of the Egyptian revolution on … household behaviour in terms of education, health expenditure and savings. We construct a new measure of political instability …

and cooking. This study uses publicly available MICS Plus survey data from UNICEF. MICS Plus is a longitudinal household …

hours, loss of sales and income of a household business, inability to travel to work, increased need to stay at home to look … after children or sick household members, higher prices and/or lack of availability of staple items, reduced access to …, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Our empirical results suggest that various household characteristics, including …