Frijters Paul, Haisken-DeNew John P, Shields Michael A
RSSS, Australian National University, Australia.
J Health Econ. 2005 Sep;24(5):997-1017. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.01.004. Epub 2005 Mar 2.
We investigate whether there was a causal effect of income changes on the health satisfaction of East and West Germans in the years following reunification. Our data source is the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) between 1984 and 2002, and we fit a recently proposed fixed-effects ordinal estimator to our health measures and use a causal decomposition technique to account for panel attrition. We find evidence of a significant positive effect of income changes on health satisfaction, but the quantitative size of this effect is small. This is the case with respect to current income and a measure of 'permanent' income.
我们研究了统一后的几年里，收入变化对东德和西德居民健康满意度是否存在因果效应。我们的数据来源是1984年至2002年的德国社会经济面板（GSOEP），我们将最近提出的固定效应有序估计量应用于我们的健康指标，并使用因果分解技术来处理面板数据损耗问题。我们发现有证据表明收入变化对健康满意度有显著的正向影响，但这种影响的数量规模较小。当前收入和“永久”收入指标的情况都是如此。
