Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Crimmins, Eileen M.; Hurd, Michael D. - 2014
The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … that business closures lead to worse health outcomes. We also find no evidence that biomarker health measures predict …