TY  - JOUR
AU  - Taubman,Paul J.
AU  - Rosen,Sherwin
TI  - Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 611
PY  - 1982
Y2  - August 1982
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0611
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0611.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Paul Taubman
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Sherwin Rosen
Department of Economics University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL   60637
Tel: 312-702-8166
M1  - published as Paul Taubman, Sherwin Rosen. "Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status," in Victor R. Fuchs, editor, "Economic Aspects of Health" University of Chicago Press (1982)

AB  - In this paper we use data from the Retirement History Survey (RHS) to examine the relationship of some sociodemographic and economic variables to morbidity and mortality. Since the RHS is a longitudinal survey, we are able to study current health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects persist when we control for income and use of medical facilities. An interesting finding is that married men seem to persist in the state of poor health rather than dying.
ER  -