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Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle
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20. Oktober 2011
Abstract
We estimate a dynamic model of health that is rooted in "stress models" from Epidemiology. Health is determined by time-invariant endowments, permanent shocks, and transitory shocks. We estimate that the variance in health at age 60 ranges between 2.5 and five times its variance at age 25 depending on which demographic group we consider. We show that the stress model performs better than a simple alternative, the random effects Probit, particularly for less educated people.
Published Online: 2011-10-20
©2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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- Socioeconomic Status and Health Over the Life Course and Across Generations: Introduction to a Special Issue and Overview of a Unique Data Resource
- Advances Article
- Attrition in Models of Intergenerational Links Using the PSID with Extensions to Health and to Sibling Models
- The Influence of Early-Life Events on Human Capital, Health Status, and Labor Market Outcomes Over the Life Course
- Health Dynamics and the Evolution of Health Inequality over the Life Course: The Importance of Neighborhood and Family Background
- Contributions Article
- Family and Community Influences on Health and Socioeconomic Status: Sibling Correlations Over the Life Course
- Decomposing the Intergenerational Disparity in Income and Obesity
- Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle
- Topics Article
- Estimating the Education-Health Relationship: A Cost-Utility Approach
- Occupational Status and Health Transitions
