Russo, Nicolo; McGee, Rory; De Nardi, Mariacristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which … it can explain inequalities in other key economic outcomes using the Health and Retirement Study data set. Our main … measure of health is frailty, which is the fraction of one's possible health deficits and is related to biological age. We …