| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w17273 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 17273 |
| \"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?\" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health | |
| Till Stowasser; Florian Heiss; Daniel McFadden; Joachim Winter | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-08-04 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Much has been said about the stylized fact that the economically successful are not only wealthier but also healthier than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there remains a vivid debate about its source. In this paper, we review the methodological challenges involved in testing the causal relationships between socio-economic status and health. We describe the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels developed by Adams et al. (2003) that seeks identification without the need to isolate exogenous variation in economic variables, and we repeat their analysis using the full range of data that have become available in the Health and Retirement Study since, both in terms of observations years and age ranges covered. This analysis shows that causal inference critically depends on which time periods are used for estimation. Using the information of longer panels has the greatest effect on results. We find that SES causality cannot be ruled out for a larger number of health conditions than in the original study. An approach based on a reduced-form interpretation of causality thus is not very informative, at least as long as the confounding influence of hidden common factors is not fully controlled. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17273 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574948 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Till Stowasser,Florian Heiss,Daniel McFadden,et al. \"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?\" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health. 2011. |
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