Do disability pension awards have a causal impact on recipients’ marital stability? Evidence from the Danish Social Security Programme
| Autor: | Steen Bengtsson, Kirstine Bengtsson, Siddhartha Baviskar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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030506 rehabilitation
Health (social science) Short run Health Policy 05 social sciences Causal effect Instrumental variable Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Disability pension language.human_language Social security Danish 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Marital stability 0502 economics and business language Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Demographic economics 050207 economics 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Alter. 12:208-224 |
| ISSN: | 1875-0672 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.alter.2018.06.003 |
| Popis: | What is the effect of a disability pension (DP) on the recipients’ marital stability if we keep the recipients’ health constant? Previous research shows that marital stability may be challenged when one partner acquires a disability. However, the effects of permanent benefits such as DP on recipients’ marital stability have not yet been examined. We contribute to the literature by investigating this question using data from Denmark and estimating the causal effect of DP using instrumental variable regression and the municipal award rate for DPs as the instrument. We find that a DP considerably lowers the risk of divorce, markedly in the short run, but also in the longer run. Our findings suggest overall that a DP preserves disabled persons’ marriage, despite the onset of disability. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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