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Li, Ning. Essays on health outcomes, economic wellbeing and mismeasured discrete health variables. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-9bpe-3d02

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TitleEssays on health outcomes, economic wellbeing and mismeasured discrete health variables
NameLi, Ning (author); Klein, Roger (chair); Moehling, Carolyn (co-chair); Landon-Lane, John (internal member); Shen, Chan (outside member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2019
Other Date2019-10 (degree)
SubjectEconomics, Older people -- Health and hygiene -- Costs
Extent1 online resource (ix, 100 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionThis thesis studies the labor supply effects of health shocks for aging Americans. To address the mismeasured binary health variables used in the labor supply equation, this thesis develops a new theoretical approach to the non-classical measurement error. In addition to Chapter 1 which provides an overview of the thesis, there are three primary chapters explaining the theoretical development and the empirical studies.
Chapter 2 theoretically addresses the estimation bias due to the misclassification of a binary regressor in treatment models. Different from the assumption of a valid instrument in the literature, this paper allows the potential instrument to be correlated with the measurement error. In such a general setting, I propose an estimator relying only on those extreme observations that are free of misclassification. This proposed estimator is proven to have large sample properties and much better performance than OLS and traditional IV estimates in finite samples.
Chapter 3 uses the method proposed in Chapter 2 to handle the binary, misclassified health variable in studying the labor supply effects of health shocks. Extracting information on true health from objective health measures, for example functional limitations and doctors’ diagnoses, this new method relies on such information to dynamically select observations that are free of misclassification. Using the 2012 wave of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), this paper primarily examines the labor supply effects of health shocks for men and women aged 45-61. This study finds that individuals in middle age will greatly reduce their labor supply when experiencing health shocks and that the estimation results are very sensitive to the health measures used.
In Chapter 4, I examine how an individual’s labor supply responds in the short- and long-run to a negative shock to her spouse’s health. I propose an optimal instrument strategy with fixed effects to study labor supply effects of spousal health shocks. Analysis of the 1996-2012 data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) indicates that in the short run, both husbands and wives change their labor supply very little when their spouses become ill. However, in the long run, husbands adjust their labor supply in response to their wives’ health problems. As the duration of wives’ health problems increases by two years, husbands work 165 fewer hours per year.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-9bpe-3d02
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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