Reporting error in weight and height among older adults: Implications for estimating healthcare costs

John Cawley, Johanna Maclean and Asia Sikora Kessler

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2017, vol. 9, issue C, 122-144

Abstract: Previous research has identified obesity as a major contributor to healthcare costs among older adults. A limitation of this literature is its reliance on self-reported measures of weight and height, which may contain substantial error that can lead to bias in estimates of obesity prevalence and coefficients in healthcare utilization regressions.

Keywords: Healthcare costs; Reporting error; Weight; Height; Obesity; Older adults (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2016.10.001

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