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Valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: Evidence from Japan
Unpaid housework among married working couples is largely done by women in Japan, causing health losses due to work-to-family conflict. However, monetary values for the poor health condition of working mothers with multiple roles have not been explored. The purpose of this study is to examine the im...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8115846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33979404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251468 |
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description | Unpaid housework among married working couples is largely done by women in Japan, causing health losses due to work-to-family conflict. However, monetary values for the poor health condition of working mothers with multiple roles have not been explored. The purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of health conditions on life satisfaction (LS) among middle-aged Japanese men and women and attach a monetary value to self-assessed poor health (SAPH). The well-being valuation approach applied monetary values to health losses among middle-aged working persons, using a total of 6,779 married workers drawn from a nationwide 6 wave (2007, 2009, 2011–2014) longitudinal data from the Japanese Life Course Panel Survey of Middle-aged Persons. Female workers having multiple roles as employees and housewives, who spent at least 35 hours per week on market work are defined as women with multiple roles. LS was used as a proxy of individuals’ subjective well-being. Considering the endogeneity between SAPH and LS, I used the two-stage residual inclusion approach with generalized residuals. Major findings are (1) health losses of women with multiple roles were 1.47 times of the equivalent household income; larger than those of men with multiple roles, and (2) health losses of women with multiple roles can be reduced by around 9.5% of the equivalent household income if the spouse shares the housework by engaging in frequent cleaning of the house. Taking health losses of women with multiple roles into consideration, middle-aged men should reconsider the allocation of work attributable to the attitudes toward gender roles. |
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spelling | pubmed-81158462021-05-24 Valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: Evidence from Japan Kumagai, Narimasa PLoS One Research Article Unpaid housework among married working couples is largely done by women in Japan, causing health losses due to work-to-family conflict. However, monetary values for the poor health condition of working mothers with multiple roles have not been explored. The purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of health conditions on life satisfaction (LS) among middle-aged Japanese men and women and attach a monetary value to self-assessed poor health (SAPH). The well-being valuation approach applied monetary values to health losses among middle-aged working persons, using a total of 6,779 married workers drawn from a nationwide 6 wave (2007, 2009, 2011–2014) longitudinal data from the Japanese Life Course Panel Survey of Middle-aged Persons. Female workers having multiple roles as employees and housewives, who spent at least 35 hours per week on market work are defined as women with multiple roles. LS was used as a proxy of individuals’ subjective well-being. Considering the endogeneity between SAPH and LS, I used the two-stage residual inclusion approach with generalized residuals. Major findings are (1) health losses of women with multiple roles were 1.47 times of the equivalent household income; larger than those of men with multiple roles, and (2) health losses of women with multiple roles can be reduced by around 9.5% of the equivalent household income if the spouse shares the housework by engaging in frequent cleaning of the house. Taking health losses of women with multiple roles into consideration, middle-aged men should reconsider the allocation of work attributable to the attitudes toward gender roles. Public Library of Science 2021-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8115846/ /pubmed/33979404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251468 Text en © 2021 Narimasa Kumagai https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kumagai, Narimasa Valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: Evidence from Japan |
title | Valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: Evidence from Japan |
title_full | Valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: Evidence from Japan |
title_fullStr | Valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: Evidence from Japan |
title_full_unstemmed | Valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: Evidence from Japan |
title_short | Valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: Evidence from Japan |
title_sort | valuation of health losses of women with multiple roles using a well-being valuation approach: evidence from japan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8115846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33979404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251468 |
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