Abstract
This chapter adds to the literature about the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers, as well as employing estimation techniques that allow for analysis beyond the mean. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross-sectional income measures. Unconditional quantile regressions reveal that the differences between long-run and the short-run income gradients are more evident toward the right tails of the distributions, where both higher risk of illnesses and steeper income gradients are observed.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Panel Data Econometrics |
Subtitle of host publication | Empirical Applications |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Chapter | 22 |
Pages | 709-741 |
Number of pages | 33 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-12-815859-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |