Can heterogeneity in reporting behavior explain the gender gap in self-assessed health status?

Dilek Basar and Mehmet A. Soytas

This paper explains the gender differences in self-assessed health status by providing a theoretical identification mechanism through a dynamic structural model which allows for heterogeneity in discount factors of individuals. Theoretical predictions are empirically tested and estimation results support the structural model implications. The authors conclude that accounting for heterogeneity in individual discount factors explains a significant portion of the gender gap in self-assessed health status.

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Year of publication:	[2018]
Authors:	Basar, Dilek ; Soytas, Mehmet A.
Publisher:	Kiel : Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Subject:	Gender \| self-assessed health status \| discount factor heterogeneity \| dynamic structural model \| ordinal generalized linear model estimation \| Berichtswesen \| Reporting \| Gesundheit \| Health \| Diskontierung \| Discounting \| Generalisiertes lineares Modell \| Generalized linear model

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 20 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Economics : the open-access, open-assessment e-journal. - Kiel : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1867-8009, ZDB-ID 2324936-5.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/176567 [Handle]
Classification:	I10 - Health. General ; I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior ; i14 ; J16 - Economics of Gender
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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