Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
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- Keith A. Bender & Steffen Habermalz, 2008. "Are There Differences in the Health– Socio‐economic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 22(1), pages 107-125, March.
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Keywords
health; endogeneity; socioeconomic status; Germany; life cycle;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General
- J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
- C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EEC-2005-04-24 (European Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2005-04-24 (Health Economics)
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