Self-assessed health, reference levels, and mortality

Jürges, Hendrik

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URL:	http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/894
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-8947
Document Type:	Working paper
Year of publication:	2005
The title of a journal, publication series:	None
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Law and Economics > Sonstige - Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre
MADOC publication series:	Veröffentlichungen des MEA (Mannheim Research Institute For the Economics of Aging) > MEA Discussion Papers
Subject:	330 Economics
Classification:	JEL: I12 C42 ,
Subject headings (SWD):	Sterblichkeit , Gesundheit , Deutschland
Abstract:	The paper studies the relationship between self-assessed health and subsequent mortality in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Specifically, I examine whether socio-economic characteristics of respondents have an effect on mortality, conditional on self-assessed health. Such conditional effects are shown to exist for various covariates, including age, income, and wealth. These findings question the comparability of self-assessed health across different socio-economic groups.
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