TY - JOUR AU - Heiss,Florian AU - Hurd,Michael AU - Borsch-Supan,Axel TI - Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live: Predicted Trajectories of Health, Wealth and Living Arrangements Among the Oldest Old JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 9897 PY - 2003 Y2 - August 2003 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9897 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9897.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Florian Heiss Department of Statistics and Econometrics Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Haus Recht und Wirtschaft II D-55099 Mainz Germany Tel: +49 (0) 6131/39 22551 Fax: +49 (0) 6131/39 23717 E-Mail: heiss@uni-mainz.de Michael D. Hurd RAND Corporation 1776 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90407 Tel: 310/451-6945 Fax: 310/451-6923 E-Mail: mhurd@rand.org Axel H. Boersch-Supan Munich Center for the Economics of Aging Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Pol Amalienstrasse 33 80779 Munich GERMANY Tel: +49 (89) 3860-2355 Fax: 49 (89) 3860-2390 E-Mail: axel@boersch-supan.de AB - Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely related. This paper investigates the joint evolution of the three conditions, using a microeconometric approach similar to what is known as vector autoregressions' (VAR) in the macroeconomics literature. ER -