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Short-run and long-run persistence of bad health among elderly

2019

We study the health dynamics among older Americans using ten waves of the Health and Retirement Study following a spell-approach and a regression-based approach. The former is fully non parametric synthesizing the sequences of health status into a Health Persistence Index. The latter approach relies on a Latent Markov (LM) model capturing persistence in poor health by modelling time-varying unobserved heterogeneity. Our results show that only few elders experiences persistently a poor health status. The higher values of the index are consistently observed with the main socio-demo-economic risk factors. Moreover LM model indicates the existence of three unobserved groups differing in their p…

Settore SECS-P/03 - Scienza Delle FinanzePersistent bad health health persistence index latent Markov model elderly Health and Retirement StudySettore SECS-S/05 - Statistica Sociale
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Socioeconomic determinants of persistence in poor subjective health

2012

This paper aims at contributing to the constantly growing literature on the dynamics of (self assessed) health. Using the eight waves of the Health and Retirement Study, targeting elderly Americans over the age of 50, we measure persistence in bad health using an index borrowed from the literature on persistent poverty. This new approach, which is totally non parametric in the way it defines the relationship (for each individual and along the time) among years of poor and not poor health, allows to catch some interesting links between the subjective health and several factors such as education, life styles and socioeconomic status that may have a long-lasting influence on an individual’s he…

persistence in health subjective health Health and Retirement StudySettore SECS-P/03 - Scienza Delle FinanzeSettore SECS-S/05 - Statistica Sociale
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