The income-health gradient: Evidence from self-reported health and biomarkers using longitudinal data on income

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This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well as employing estimation techniques that allow for analysis 'beyond the mean' and accounting for unobserved heterogeneity. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures. Unconditional quantile regressions reveal that the differences between the long-run and the short-run income gradients are more evident towards the right tails of the distributions, where both higher risk of illnesses and steeper income gradients are observed. A two-step estimator, involving a fixed-effects income model at the first stage, shows that the individual-specific selection effects have a systematic impact in the long-run income gradients in self-reported health but not in biomarkers, highlighting the importance of reporting error in self-reported health.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2017-03

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health and Inequality
• Thema: biomarkers ; health inequalities ; panel data ; understanding society

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Davillas, Apostolos ; Jones, Andrew M. ; Benzeval, Michaela
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (wo): Colchester
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/163546
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ