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ArticleJournal of the economics of ageing2019

Health Disparities and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Elderly Life-Cycle Consumption.

Ray Miller, Neha Bairoliya, David Canning

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Article in Journal of the economics of ageing, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Ray MillerHarvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States.
Neha BairoliyaThe University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Economics, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States.
David CanningHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, United States.

Funding

HRS Yrs29-34: Y33 SSA CoFundingU01AG009740 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Jessica Faul, KENNETH M LANGA · 1990 to 2026
$555.8M
The Center for the Global Demography of AgingP30AG024409 · NIA · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI BLOOM, DAVID E · 2004 to 2019
$7.9M
Welfare Effects of Balancing the Federal Social Security and Health Care BudgetsR01AG048037 · NIA · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI CANNING, DAVID J · 2014 to 2018
$3.2M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG024409NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048037NIA NIH HHS U01 AG009740
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We quantify the importance of health disparities in explaining consumption differences at older ages by estimating a panel VAR model of elderly consumption, health, and mortality using data from the Health and Retirement Study. We use the estimated model and initial joint distribution of health and consumption to simulate elderly life-cycle paths and construct a measure of the net present value of expected remaining lifetime consumption at age sixty (NPVC). We first document a steep education gradient in elderly lifetime consumption. We then decompose the gradient in NPVC to quantify the effect of 1) differences in the health distribution at age sixty and 2) differential health and mortality transitions after age sixty. Our decomposition results suggest that roughly 10-12% of the education gradient in NPVC at age sixty could be closed by eliminating elderly health differences.

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agingconsumption inequalityD12D30D63education gradienthealthI14life-cycle

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PMCPMC6919661

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