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Title: Economic Responses to Poor Health in Older Males: Final Report and Executive Summary
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1. Parsons, Donald O.
Fleisher, Belton M.
Marvel, Howard P.
Economic Responses to Poor Health in Older Males: Final Report and Executive Summary
Final Report, National Center for Health Services Research, 1980
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: National Center for Health Services Research
Keyword(s): Assets; Family Resources; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Household Models; Marital Status; Occupations; Pensions; Simultaneity; Social Security

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The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of poor health of older males on a wide variety of labor market activities, particularly with the differential response of men to poor health as a function of their family situation. It is noted that unmarried men in poor health work substantially less than married men. Occupation also affects the response. The household model is developed at both the theoretical and empirical level. Particular attention is given to adjustment cost factors such as work hour adjustment costs and market entry costs for females and asset adjustment costs for different types of assets. The principal data base for the empirical analysis is the NLS of Older Men ages 45 to 59 in l966, the initial survey year. The empirical models are estimated using ordinary least squares and two and three stage least squares simultaneous techniques and, when appropriate, nonlinear methods.
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Parsons, Donald O., Belton M. Fleisher and Howard P. Marvel. "Economic Responses to Poor Health in Older Males: Final Report and Executive Summary." Final Report, National Center for Health Services Research, 1980.