Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245793 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14742
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even after conditioning on a series of individual characteristics. As a second step, we investigate the causes of the gender gap in hypertension misreporting. We show that women go to the doctor more often than men do and that they have better knowledge of their family medical history. Once these differences are taken into account, the gender gap in false negative reporting of hypertension is reversed. This suggests that information acquisition and healthcare utilisation are crucial ingredients in fighting undiagnosed male hypertension.
Subjects: 
gender
objective health
subjective health
hypertension
false negative reporting
JEL: 
I10
I12
J18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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