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The dynamics of health in the British Household Panel Survey

✍ Scribed by Paul Contoyannis; Andrew M. Jones; Nigel Rice

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 848 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 0883-7252
DOI: 10.1002/jae.755

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper considers the dynamics of a categorical indicator of self‐assessed health using eight waves (1991–1998) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Our analysis has three focal points: the relative contributions of state dependence and heterogeneity in explaining the dynamics of health, the existence and consequences of health‐related sample attrition, and the investigation of the effects of measures of socioeconomic status, with a particular focus on educational attainment and income. To investigate these issues we use dynamic panel ordered probit models. There is clear evidence of health‐related attrition in the data but this does not distort the estimates of state dependence and of the socioeconomic gradient in health. The models show strong positive state dependence and heterogeneity accounts for around 30% of the unexplained variation in health. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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