Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 540-552Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.02.010
Keywords
Hypertension; Objective health; Self-reported health; Reporting error; Income
Funding
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-343-28-3001] Funding Source: researchfish
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Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health to examine the relationship between income and health. We directly compare survey responses of a self-reported measure of health that is commonly used in nationally representative surveys with objective measures of the same health condition. We focus oil hypertension. We find no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension but a sizeable gradient when using objectively measured hypertension. We also find that the probability of false negative reporting is significantly income graded. Our results suggest that using commonly available self-reported chronic health measures might underestimate true income-related inequalities in health. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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