Earnings Growth and Movements in Self-Reported Health

No 201117, Working Papers from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics

Abstract: We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal claims are predicated upon appropriate moment restrictions and specification tests of their validity. We find evidence of Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more pronounced for younger men and the poor. The former may be the consequence of permanent earnings shocks.

Keywords: Gradient; Health; Dynamic Panel Data Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I0 I12 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2011-12-06
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