We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the model. We estimate that permanent shocks account for under 10% of the total … variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a … Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the …

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within … the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health … find evidence that, among older men, there is higher mobility at the top and bottom of the health distribution than there …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status … watching TV, sleeping, and consuming other types of leisure. We find that poor health status results in about 300 additional … also find that, for men, better health induces a substitution of market-produced goods for home-produced goods …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years ofdata from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on theestimation of dynamic panel data models.... …

pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from Kīlauea volcano, uncorrelated with other pollution sources, to …