Inflated responses in measures of self-assessed health

American Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 461-493

  Greene, William H ^a   Harris, Mark N ^b   Hollingsworth, Bruce ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inflated outcomes; Misreporting; Ordered probit; Panel data; Self assessed health

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028190578     PISSN: 23323493     EISSN: 23323507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ajhe_a_00026     Document Type: Article

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