期刊名称：Economics Discussion Papers / Department of Economics, College of Management and Economics, University of Guelph
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
出版社：University of Guelph
摘要：This paper uses the 1998-99 Canadian National Population Health
Survey (NPHS) data to examine the health-income relationship that
underlies the absolute income hypothesis. To allow for nonlinear-
ity and data heterogeneity, we use a partially linear semiparametric
quantile regression model. Among more than dozen of socioeconomic
variables, we find that family income, age and the food security status
are the most important factors in explaining an individual’s overall
functional health. The “absolute income hypothesis” is partially true;
the negative aging effects appear more pronounced for the ill-healthy
population than for the healthy population and when annual income
is below 40,000 Canadian dollars.
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