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Influence of Wife’s Education on Partner’s Health Status: Evidence from Marriage Couples in Indonesia
Syta Kurnia Putri

Last modified: 2017-12-22

Abstract


Health is an important  part of human capital investment. One of the greatest factor on someone’s health is educational attainment. Individuals with longer years of schooling tend to have better adult health  and theoretically, an individual’s health not only affect by their own behavior but also the environment where they lived particularly their marriage partner. Therefore, this study aim to find out is there any association between wife’s education on her partner’s health status and the mechanism behind it. Using data from Indonesia Social and Economic Survey (SUSENAS) 2016, there were 172.939 household meeting with the criteria of this study. To answer the research question, multinomial logistic regression were applied for analysis. The author’s found that in Indonesia, wife’s education significantly associated with partner’s health status, even after controlling with partner’s own education and other variables. The result also show that husband will be more healthy when wife’s more educated.


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