Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58634 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6367
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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 bottom quartile of the earnings distribution. The former may be the consequence of permanent earnings shocks, whereas the latter may be the consequence of job loss.
Subjects: 
gradient
health
dynamic panel data models
JEL: 
I0
I12
J1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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