Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency

Timothy Riffe, Pil H. Chung, Jeroen J. A. Spijker and John MacInnes
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Timothy Riffe: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2015-003, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: We aim to determine the extent to which variables commonly used to describe health, wellbeing, and disability in old-age vary primarily as a function of years lived (chronological age), years left (thanatological age), or as a function of both. We analyze data from the US Health and Retirement Study to estimate chronological age and time-to-death patterns in 78 such variables. We describe results from the birth cohort born 1915-1919 in the final 12 years of life. Our results show that most markers used to study well-being in old-age vary along both the age and time-to-death dimensions, but some markers are exclusively a function of either time to death or chronological age, and others display different patterns between the sexes.

Keywords: USA; age; demographic accounting; disability; methodology; morbidity; mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2015-003

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