Baker, Michael; Stabile, Mark; Deri, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. The former are 1) responses to … measurement error in these 'objective, self-reported' measures of health. Our analysis makes use of a unique data set that matches … a variety of self-reports of health with respondents' medical records. Our findings are striking. For example, the ratio …