Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status / Paul J. Taubman, Sherwin Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taubman, Paul J.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Rosen, Sherwin.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w0611.

NBER working paper series no. w0611

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Married people.

Education.

Marriage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1980.

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1980.

Summary:

In this paper we use data from the Retirement History Survey (RHS) to examine the relationship of some sociodemographic and economic variables to morbidity and mortality. Since the RHS is a longitudinal survey, we are able to study current health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects persist when we control for income and use of medical facilities. An interesting finding is that married men seem to persist in the state of poor health rather than dying.

Notes:

Print version record

December 1980.