Data and Code for: Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego; Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen

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Project Citation: 

Fadlon, Itzik, and Nielsen, Torben Heien. Data and Code for: Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-06-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/E118908V2

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We provide new evidence on households’ labor supply responses to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in the short- and medium-run. To identify causal effects, we leverage administrative data on Danish families and construct counterfactuals using households that experience the same event a few years apart. Fatal events lead to considerable increases in surviving spouses’ labor supply, which the evidence suggests is driven by families who experience significant income losses. Non-fatal shocks have no meaningful effects on spousal labor supply, consistent with their adequate insurance coverage. The results support self-insurance as a driving mechanism for the family labor supply responses.

Scope of Project

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      D10 Household Behavior: General
      I10 Health: General
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Denmark
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1980 – 2011
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Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Statistics Denmark
Health and Retirement Study

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V2 [2020-06-02]

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