The increasingly mixed proportional hazard model: An application to socioeconomic status, health shocks, and mortality

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-281

  Frijters, Paul ^a   Haisken DeNew, John P ^b   Shields, Michael A ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Duration analysis; Mortality; Shock; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958736021     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jbes.2010.08082     Document Type: Article

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