Maurer, Jürgen; Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the … - 2008
We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning typically introduce an endogeneity bias when studying the...