García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is supported by numerous studies that show that SAHS is a better predictor of mortality and morbidity than medical records. The 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and...
