丈夫外出对于留守妇女身体健康的影响  

The Impacts of Husband's Leaving Away for Job on the Health of Left-behind Wives in Rural China

作　　者：李强[1] 叶昱利 

机构地区：[1]西南民族大学经济学院 [2]西南民族大学管理学院,四川成都610041

出　　处：《南方人口》2017年第5期48-57,共10页South China Population

基　　金：国家社会科学基金重点项目:《政府;企业;公众共治环境污染相互作用的机理与实证研究》,15AZD079;四川省社会科学规划重大项目:《四川留守农村社会问题研究》,SC14ZD07;教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目:《幸福经济学视角下政府财政支出行为研究》,15XJC790012;西南民族大学应用经济学学位点建设项目(2014XWD-S0202);西南民族大学中央高校专项课题2017SZYQN83

摘　　要：本文研究丈夫外出务工对留守妇女身体健康的影响。识别量化此影响,却因内生性较为困难。第一,女性是否留守可能与个人不可观测的特征相关;第二,收入与健康之间相互影响,很难区分出收入对于健康的影响。使用工具变量解决内生性问题后,本文发现,留守妇女生病或患有慢性病的概率将显著增加30%。本文的结果在不同的模型设定与估计方法下均稳健。因此,研究结果揭示留守妇女的健康处于不利的境地,为政府进一步解决留守妇女问题提供可靠的实证依据。The husband! s leaving away for job impacts on the health conditions of the wives left behind. However the study to measure such impacts quantitatively is bothered by the endogeneity of variables, becasue firstly the decision for wife! s stay home alone instead of migration with husband may correlate with some unobservable personal characteristics, and secondly income and health interactively impacts each other. The paper adopt instrumental variable to control the endogeneity and find that the left-behind women are nearly 30% more likely to get sick or have chronic disease than their counterparts by controlling all other variables with. The findings are inspected with satisfactory Robustness Test in all models and methods. The precise estimation of the negative impacts of husbands! leaving home away for job on the health of their left behind wives can be some references for government to issue some public polices accordingly.

关 键 词：留守妇女 健康 收入 

分 类 号：C92-05[社会学—人口学]