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Title: Couple Models for Socioeconomic Effects on the Mortality of Older Persons
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Mare, Robert D. Palloni, Alberto |
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Couple Models for Socioeconomic Effects on the Mortality of Older Persons CDE Working Paper No. 88-7, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988. Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/1988papers.htm Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: Center for Demography and Ecology Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Husbands; Mortality; Pairs (also see Siblings); Variables, Independent - Covariate; Wives Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper develops and applies models for the multivariate analysis of survival processes when observations are naturally paired. These models include bivariate tobit models for observations drawn from censored bivariate normal distributions, bivariate hazard models, and models based on pair rank data. These models provide alternative ways of estimating the effects of the covariates of survival within pairs while controlling for unobserved factors that are shared by members of the pair. The models make varying distributational assumptions about the age pattern of survival and about unobserved pair-level determinants of survival. The models are applied to the assessment of socioeconomic effects on mortality on husbands and wives in the U.S. using the NLS of Older Men. Bivariate survival models provide a systematic way of assessing common, cross-spouse, and within- spouse effects of education, occupational status, and other sociodemographic predictors of mortality, as well as bereavement and widowhood effects. Most socioeconomic influences on mortality are through their effects on shared experiences of spouses rather than person-specific mechanisms. In the application presented here, the bivariate tobit, bivariate hazard, and pair rank models yield similar results. |
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Mare, Robert D. and Alberto Palloni. "Couple Models for Socioeconomic Effects on the Mortality of Older Persons." CDE Working Paper No. 88-7, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988. |