Differential Mortality in the UK / Orazio P. Attanasio, Carl Emmerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attanasio, Orazio P.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Emmerson, Carl.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8241.

NBER working paper series no. w8241

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.

Summary:

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 moving from the 40th percentile to the 60th percentile in the wealth distribution increases the probability of survival by between 2.4 and 3.4 percentage points depending on the measure of wealth used. A slightly smaller effect is found for women of between 1.5 and 1.9 percentage points. In the process of estimating these effects we control for non-random attrition from our sample.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2001.