Smith K R, Zick C D
Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112.
Demography. 1994 Feb;31(1):81-93.
Past research has found that married individuals have substantially lower risks of mortality than their single counterparts. This paper examines how household characteristics affect spouses' risks of mortality. A paired hazard rate model is estimated and tests are made to ascertain whether the estimated coefficients associated with risk factors differ between husbands' and wives' equations. Cigarette smoking, risk-avoidance behavior, poverty, and children are found to affect wives' and husbands' mortality in similar ways. Divorce, which can be interpreted as the termination of this shared household environment, is found to affect spouses differently.
过去的研究发现，已婚人士的死亡风险比单身人士低得多。本文研究了家庭特征如何影响配偶的死亡风险。估计了一个配对风险率模型，并进行了测试，以确定与风险因素相关的估计系数在丈夫和妻子的方程中是否不同。研究发现，吸烟、风险规避行为、贫困和子女对妻子和丈夫死亡率的影响方式相似。离婚可被视为这种共享家庭环境的终止，研究发现它对配偶的影响有所不同。
