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Predictors of Mortality Among the Elderly / Michael Hurd, Daniel McFadden, Angela Merrill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hurd, Michael.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7440.
- NBER working paper series no. w7440
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mortality.
- Mortality--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1999.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999.
- Summary:
- The objective of this paper is to find the quantitative importance of some predictors of mortality among the population aged 70 or over. The predictors are socio-economic indicators (income, wealth and education), thirteen health indicators including a history of heart attack or cancer, and subjective probabilities of survival. The estimation is based on mortality between waves 1 and 2 of the Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest-Old study. We find that the relationship between socio-economic indicators and mortality declines with age 13 health indicators are strong predictors of mortality and that the subjective survival probabilities predict mortality even after controlling for socio-economic indicators and the health conditions.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 1999.
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