Borella, Margherita; Bullano, Francisco; De Nardi, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
machine learning technique, and data from the Health and Retirement Study to identify health types during middle and old age …While health affects many economic outcomes, its dynamics are still poorly understood. We use k means clustering, a …. We identify five health types: the vigorous resilient, the fair-health resilient, the fair-health vulnerable, the frail …