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How should we model health as a dynamic process?

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Health is a complex dynamic process that impacts many economic decisions in ways that remain poorly understood. This paper comprehensively reviews how health is modelled in the literature, showing that baseline models typically fail to take into account how persistence and frequency of health shocks vary by past health history and magnitude and direction of past shocks. Methods from the earnings dynamics literature are adapted to produce improved health persistence estimates. This paper also investigates how medical biomarker data can be incorporated in dynamic models of health as a proxy for underlying health. There is significant scope for further work in this area as more medical data becomes available to researchers.

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  • Alexandra Elizabeth Brown, 2023. "How should we model health as a dynamic process?," Economics Series Working Papers 1023, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxf:wpaper:1023
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    1. Davillas, Apostolos & Pudney, Stephen, 2020. "Biomarkers, disability and health care demand," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 39(C).
    2. Davillas, Apostolos & Jones, Andrew M, 2020. "Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    3. Davillas, Apostolos & Pudney, Stephen, 2020. "Biomarkers as precursors of disability," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 36(C).

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