Influence of a Wife’s Education on Her Partner’s Health Status: Evidence from Married Couples in Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/apbec-18.2019.28How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Health; education; marriage partner
- Abstract
Health is an important part of human capital investment. One of the greatest factors affecting one’s health is his educational attainment. Individuals with longer years of schooling tend to have better health as adults and, theoretically, an individual’s health is not only affected by their own behavior but also the environment where they have lived-particularly with respect to their marriage partner. Therefore, this study aims to find out whether there is any association between a wife’s education on her partner’s health status and the mechanism behind it. Using data from the Indonesia Social and Economic Survey (SUSENAS) 2016, there were 172,939 households meeting the criteria of this study. In order to answer the research question, a multinomial logistic regression was applied to the analysis. The author’s found that in Indonesia, a wife’s education was significantly associated with her partner’s health status, even after controlling for her partner’s own education and other variables. The results also indicate that a husband will be healthier when his wife is better educated.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Syta Kurnia Putri PY - 2019/07 DA - 2019/07 TI - Influence of a Wife’s Education on Her Partner’s Health Status: Evidence from Married Couples in Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Business and Economics Conference (APBEC 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 213 EP - 219 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/apbec-18.2019.28 DO - 10.2991/apbec-18.2019.28 ID - KurniaPutri2019/07 ER -