The asset cost of poor health

This paper examines the correlation between poor health and the evolution of wealth for households in the first nine waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). It complements previous studies that have enumerated specific financial costs of poor health, such as out of pocket medical expenses o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Venti, Steven F., Wise, David A., Poterba, James Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114168
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-0998