Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21336 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1560
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the health-SES relationship. Using data from German Socio Economic Panel, we find that the health-SES relationship does vary across the life cycle and that endogeneity is an important influence on the relationship. We also find tentative evidence that universal access to health care reduces the impact of income on self-reported health satisfaction.
Subjects: 
health
socioeconomic status
endogeneity
life cycle
Germany
JEL: 
I12
C13
I0
J60
J0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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