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The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Germany Reunification

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dc.contributor.authorFrijters, Paul
dc.contributor.authorHaisken-DeNew, John P
dc.contributor.authorShields, Michael A
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:58:00Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T07:20:33Z
dc.description.abstractWe 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.identifier.issn0167-6296
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/83238
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.sourceJournal of Health Economics
dc.subjectKeywords: 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.titleThe Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Germany Reunification
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage1017
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage997
local.contributor.affiliationFrijters, Paul, College of Business and Economics, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationHaisken-DeNew, John P, Ruhr-University Bochum
local.contributor.affiliationShields, Michael A, University of Melbourne
local.contributor.authoruidFrijters, Paul, u4053450
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor140208 - Health Economics
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub11462
local.identifier.citationvolume24
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.01.004
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-23944492693
local.type.statusPublished Version

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