What do self-reported, objective, measures of health measure?

被引：245

作者：

Baker, M ^{[1
]}

Stabile, M

Deri, C

机构：

[1] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

[2] Univ Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

来源：

JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES | 2004年 / 39卷 / 04期

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D O I：

10.2307/3559039

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Survey reports of the incidence of chronic conditions are considered by many researchers to be more objective, and thus preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. In this paper we evaluate this hypothesis by attempting to validate these "objective, self-reported" measures of health. Our analysis makes use of a unique data set that matches a variety of self-reports of health with respondents' medical records. We find that these measures are subject to considerable response error resulting in large attenuation biases when they are used as explanatory variables.

引用

页码：1067 / 1093

页数：27

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