Replication data for: Causal Spousal Health Spillover Effects and Implications for Program Evaluation
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Project Citation:
Fletcher, Jason, and Marksteiner, Ryne. Replication data for: Causal Spousal Health Spillover Effects and Implications for Program Evaluation. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114676V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Current methods of cost effectiveness analysis implicitly assume zero spillovers among social ties. This can underestimate the benefits of health interventions and misallocate resources toward interventions with lower comprehensive effects. We discuss the implications of social spillovers for program evaluation and document the first evidence of causal spillovers of health behaviors between spouses by leveraging experimental data from the Lung Health Study (smoking) and COMBINE Study (drinking). We find large decreases in spousal substance use from treatments with a therapy component, which reduces the incremental cost effectiveness ratios of some treatments by 12 to 18 percent.
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JEL Classification:
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D61 Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
I12 Health Behavior
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
D61 Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
I12 Health Behavior
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
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