Health, income and relative deprivation: Evidence from the BHPS
Health, income and relative deprivation: Evidence from the BHPS
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2007.05.007
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Wildman, John
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作者：
Jones, Andrew M.;Wildman, John
人们认为收入直接影响健康，但有人认为，相对贫困造成的间接收入影响可能同样重要。本文研究了这些关系，使用参数和半参数面板数据模型，改善问题的误指定和不可观察的异质性。通过允许收入的灵活函数形式，我们确保相对贫困变量的系数不是健康和收入之间高度非线性关系的假象。研究结果为收入对男性和女性自我报告的健康措施的影响提供了强有力的证据。这些结果在一系列技术中都是可靠的，并对纳入相对贫困措施具有弹性。相对剥夺的参数结果在很大程度上拒绝其对健康的影响，虽然有一些证据表明，在半参数模型的效果。(C)2007 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
It is believed that income affects health directly but it is argued that indirect income effects due to relative deprivation may be equally important. This paper investigates these relationships using parametric and semiparametric panel data models which ameliorate problems of misspecification and unobservable heterogeneity. By allowing for a flexible functional form of income we ensure that coefficients on relative deprivation variables are not an artefact of a highly non-linear relationship between health and income. The results provide strong evidence for the impact of income on self-reported measures of health for men and women. These results are robust across a range of techniques and are resilient to the inclusion of measures of relative deprivation. The parametric results for relative deprivation largely reject its influence on health, although there is some evidence of an effect in the semiparametric models. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.