Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Introduction......Page 20
Part I: Data description......Page 22
1 Data and survey design......Page 24
2 Describing the dynamics of health......Page 31
3 Inequality in health utility and self-assessed health......Page 47
Part II: Categorical data......Page 70
4 Bias in sell-reported data......Page 72
5 Health and lifestyles......Page 100
Part III: Survival data......Page 144
6 Smoking and mortality......Page 146
7 Health and retirement......Page 189
Part IV: Panel data......Page 219
8 Health and wages......Page 221
9 Modelling the dynamics of health......Page 245
10 Non-response and attrition bias......Page 285
11 Models for health-care use......Page 299
Bibliography......Page 339
Index......Page 346