Liu, Gordon G.; Kwon, Ohyun; Xue, Xindong; Fleisher, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … immortal-time bias in favor of academicians and 2) the endogenous relationship between health and social status, we find that …