Health and work of the elderly: Subjective health measures, reporting errors and endogeneity in the relationship between health and work

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1024-1046

  Maarten, Lindeboom ^a,b,c,d,e   Marcel, Kerkhofs ^f  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HEB   (Norway)

^c TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d IZA   (Germany)

^e NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

^f TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 70349846070     PISSN: 08837252     EISSN: 10991255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jae.1077     Document Type: Article

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