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An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health Using Latent Variable Models

Halliday, Timothy J.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that allow us to estimate the covariance structure of a system of latent variable equations. Across a battery of outcomes, we estimate that between 50% and 60% of health status can...

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An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health Using Latent Variable Models

Halliday, Timothy J.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Health inequality over the life-cycle

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2009

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … degrees. Consistent with this, we find that health inequality moves substantially more slowly over the life-course for the …

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Migration, risk and the intra-household allocation of labor in El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2008

We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic...

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Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models: Evidence from Mexico

Halliday, Timothy J.; Lederman, Daniel; Robertson, Raymond - 2016

Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade … Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output … prices can affect factor prices, this paper explores the relationship between output prices and wage inequality. The rise of …

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Labor Market Adjustment to Third Party Competition: Evidence from Mexico

Robertson, Raymond; Halliday, Timothy J.; Vasireddy, Sindhu - 2018

China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports from China. Using data on U.S. imports in conjunction...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in the United States: A Latent Variables Analysis

Halliday, Timothy J.; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Wong, Ashley - 2019

Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been ignored. We fill this void by providing the first...

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Health and Health Inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from the PSID

Wang, Chenggang; Wang, Huixia; Halliday, Timothy J. - 2017

We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8–8.8 percent increase in reports of poor health. Mental health was also adversely impacted and reports of...

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Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US

Halliday, Timothy J.; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Wong, Ashley - 2018

Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self-reported health status (SRH) during adulthood from the PSID. Our...

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Income volatility and health

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2007

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the previous literature on health and socio-economic...

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