Arbeitspapier

Earnings growth and movements in self-reported health

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal claims are predicated upon appropriate moment restrictions and specification tests of their validity. We find evidence of Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more pronounced for younger men and the bottom quartile of the earnings distribution. The former may be the consequence of permanent earnings shocks, whereas the latter may be the consequence of job loss.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6367

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Thema
gradient
health
dynamic panel data models
Einkommen
Gesundheit
Einkommensverteilung
Panel
Schätzung
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Halliday, Timothy
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2012

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201206146323
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Halliday, Timothy
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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