Abstract

This project will examine the dynamics of health and wealth in the U.S. population aged 50 and above. The proposed research continues an investigation into the causal links between measures of socioeconomic status (SES), such as education, liquid and non-liquid wealth, and income, and measures of health status, such as prevalence of various health conditions, and mortality. We will investigate causal patterns in incidence of health conditions for cohorts under age 65 where medical insurance and ability to work is an issue, as well as retired and Medicare-eligible cohorts. A particular focus will be individual expectations regarding health futures, and the impact of these expectations on savings and retirement behavior. An important component of the research will be further development of methods for identifying, estimating, and testing the significance of causal links in the presence of common factors; methods for handling item non-response and item response bias in surveys of the elderly, and their interaction with health status and survey administration; and methods for measuring individual expectations.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
2P01AG005842-19
Application #
6740576
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAG1-ZIJ-1 (O4))
Project Start
2004-01-01
Project End
2009-03-31
Budget Start
2004-01-01
Budget End
2005-03-31
Support Year
19
Fiscal Year
2004
Total Cost
$126,836
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
National Bureau of Economic Research
Department
Type
DUNS #
054552435
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02138

  Publications

Cimas, M; Ayala, A; Sanz, B et al. (2018) Chronic musculoskeletal pain in European older adults: Cross-national and gender differences. Eur J Pain 22:333-345
Dobkin, Carlos; Finkelstein, Amy; Kluender, Raymond et al. (2018) Myth and Measurement - The Case of Medical Bankruptcies. N Engl J Med 378:1076-1078
Schwartz, Ella; Khalaila, Rabia; Litwin, Howard (2018) Contact frequency and cognitive health among older adults in Israel. Aging Ment Health :1-9
Sand, Gregor; Gruber, Stefan (2018) Differences in Subjective Well-being Between Older Migrants and Natives in Europe. J Immigr Minor Health 20:83-90
Reus-Pons, Matias; Mulder, Clara H; Kibele, Eva U B et al. (2018) Differences in the health transition patterns of migrants and non-migrants aged 50 and older in southern and western Europe (2004-2015). BMC Med 16:57
Henseke, Golo (2018) Good jobs, good pay, better health? The effects of job quality on health among older European workers. Eur J Health Econ 19:59-73
Dobkin, Carlos; Finkelstein, Amy; Kluender, Raymond et al. (2018) The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions. Am Econ Rev 108:308-52
Turley, Patrick; Walters, Raymond K; Maghzian, Omeed et al. (2018) Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG. Nat Genet 50:229-237
Rokicki, Slawa; Cohen, Jessica; Fink, Günther et al. (2018) Inference With Difference-in-Differences With a Small Number of Groups: A Review, Simulation Study, and Empirical Application Using SHARE Data. Med Care 56:97-105
Foverskov, Else; Glymour, M Maria; Mortensen, Erik L et al. (2018) Education and Cognitive Aging: Accounting for Selection and Confounding in Linkage of Data From the Danish Registry and Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Am J Epidemiol 187:2423-2430

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