Premature male mortality and the economic well-being of households
Abstract
The paper examines the impact of the death of family members, including men of working age, on the economic wellbeing of their households. It is shown that the data from the Russian Monitoring of Economic Condition and Health (RLMS) can, despite a certain systematic error in registering the deaths of respondents, be used to assess the mortality rate of men and people of working age.
The RLMS data showed that in the year when a family member dies, the average real per capita household income grows. That is, the effect of a decrease in family size turns out to be stronger than the effect of a drop in total income. The fact is that the economic problems of the household associated with the loss of family members do not begin in the year of death, but much earlier. Therefore, a wider time range was considered, from five years before the death of a family member to five years after it. Regression analysis of the processes of falling into and out of poverty showed that the death of family members has a negative impact on the well-being of other members of the household. If a man of working age dies, the risks of falling into poverty increase for 1-5 years before and 1-5 years after this event.
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