The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Germany Reunification
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Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P; Shields, Michael A
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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...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Frijters, Paul | |
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dc.contributor.author | Haisken-DeNew, John P | |
dc.contributor.author | Shields, Michael A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-13T22:58:00Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0167-6296 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/83238 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.source | Journal of Health Economics | |
dc.subject | Keywords: health status; income; article; decomposition; health; income; quantitative analysis; satisfaction; socioeconomics; Adult; Consumer Satisfaction; Female; Germany; Health Status; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Econometric; Social Class; Central Europe; Attrition; German reunification; Health; Income; Panel data | |
dc.title | The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Germany Reunification | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.description.refereed | Yes | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 24 | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 140208 - Health Economics | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | MigratedxPub11462 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Frijters, Paul, College of Business and Economics, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Haisken-DeNew, John P, Ruhr-University Bochum | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Shields, Michael A, University of Melbourne | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 997 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 1017 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.01.004 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-12T07:20:33Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-23944492693 | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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