Arbeitspapier
The evolution of health over the life cycle
We construct a unified objective measure of health status: the frailty index, defined as the cumulative sum of all adverse health indicators observed for an individual. First, we show that the frailty index has several advantages over self-reported health status, particularly when studying health dynamics. Then we estimate a stochastic process for frailty dynamics over the life cycle. We find that the autocovariance structure of frailty in panel data strongly supports a process that allows the conditional variance of frailty shocks to increase with age. Our frailty measure and dynamic process can be used by researchers to study the evolution of health over the life cycle and its economic implications.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2019-12
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health and Inequality
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
- Subject
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health
frailty index
life cycle profiles
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hosseini, Roozbeh
Kopecky, Karen A.
Zhao, Kai
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Veröffentlichung
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
- (where)
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Atlanta, GA
- (when)
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.29338/wp2019-12
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hosseini, Roozbeh
- Kopecky, Karen A.
- Zhao, Kai
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Time of origin
- 2019
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