Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1083-1099

  Lindeboom, Maarten ^a,b   Van Doorslaer, Eddy ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Canada; Cut point shift; D30; D31; Health measurement; Hierarchical ordered probit; I10; I12; Index shift

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

CANADA; EDUCATION; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8844234234     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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