Selective Migration and Health

Timothy J. Halliday and Michael C. Kimmitt ()
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Michael C. Kimmitt: University of Hawaii at Manoa

No 3458, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health distribution reduces mobility by 32-40%. Non-random attrition from the panel implies that these are lower bounds. By contrast, we find evidence that, among older men, there is higher mobility at the top and bottom of the health distribution than there is in the middle. For women, we find no evidence of a relationship between their own health and mobility, although spousal health does affect the mobility of married women.

Keywords: migration; health; selection; attrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea and nep-mig
Date: Written 2008-04
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