The causal effect of income on health: Evidence from German reunification

被引：212

作者：

Frijters, P

Haisken-DeNew, JP

Shields, MA ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Melbourne, Dept Econ, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia

[2] Australian Natl Univ, RSSS, Canberra, ACT, Australia

[3] RWI, Essen, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS | 2005年 / 24卷 / 05期

关键词：

income; health; German reunification; panel data; attrition;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.01.004

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We investigate whether there was a causal effect of income changes on the health satisfaction of East and West Germans in the years following reunification. Our data source is the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) between 1984 and 2002, and we fit a recently proposed fixed-effects ordinal estimator to our health measures and use a causal decomposition technique to account for panel attrition. We find evidence of a significant positive effect of income changes on health satisfaction, but the quantitative size of this effect is small. This is the case with respect to current income and a measure of 'permanent' income. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：997 / 1017

页数：21

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