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| Title: | | Health inequality over the life-cycle  |
| Authors: | | Halliday, Timothy J. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4369 |
| Abstract: | | We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is determined by three factors: endowments, and permanent and transitory shocks. We employ Simulated Minimum Distance and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the model. We estimate that permanent shocks account for under 10% of the total variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college degrees. Consistent with this, we find that health inequality moves substantially more slowly over the life-course for the college educated. |
| Subjects: | | Health dynamic panel data models variance decomposition |
| JEL: | | I1 C5 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009100235 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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