TY  - JOUR
AU  - Attanasio,Orazio P.
AU  - Emmerson,Carl
TI  - Differential Mortality in the UK
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8241
PY  - 2001
Y2  - April 2001
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8241
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8241.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Orazio Attanasio
Department of Economics
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: 44/20-76795880
Fax: 44/20-79162775
E-Mail: o.attanasio@ucl.ac.uk

Carl Emmerson
Institute for Fiscal Studies
7 Ridgemount Street
London WC1E 7AE ENGLAND
E-Mail: cemmerson@ifs.org.uk
AB  - In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 moving from the 40th percentile to the 60th percentile in the wealth distribution increases the probability of survival by between 2.4 and 3.4 percentage points depending on the measure of wealth used. A slightly smaller effect is found for women of between 1.5 and 1.9 percentage points. In the process of estimating these effects we control for non-random attrition from our sample.
ER  -