Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2014
We estimate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We use Bayesian methods to … than previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling … correlations in income and suggest that health status, like other measures of socioeconomic success, is strongly influenced by …