Self-assessed health, reference levels, and mortality

Hendrik Jürges ()
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Hendrik Jürges: Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Postal: Amalienstr. 33, D-80799 Munich
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No 4057, MEA discussion paper series from Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

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 many covariates, including age, sex, income, and education. These findings question the comparability of self-assessed health across different socio-economic groups.

JEL-codes: C42 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08-20
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