; dynamic panel data models ; gradient …We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. -- Health …

This paper investigates the evolution of health over the life-cycle using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We allow … health care and its delivery may be an effective means of mitigating the gradient. ….” Estimation indicates that there are at least four types suggesting that there is a large degree of heterogeneity governing health …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

In this paper, we use longitudinal data on Self-Reported Health Status from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to … estimate a model of the evolution of health over the life-cycle. The model allows for two sources of persistence in health …: unobserved heterogeneity, which models an individual’s (unobserved) ability to cope with health shocks, and state dependence …

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … determined by three factors: endowments, and permanent and transitory shocks. We employ Simulated Minimum Distance and the Panel … variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health …

Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …

counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …