Volume 21, Number 2 (Spring) 1986
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt. 1986. "Measuring the Effect of Income on Adult Mortality Using Longitudinal Administrative Records Data." Journal of Human Resources 21(2):238-251.
This study enhances the 1973 CPS-IRS-SSA Exact Match File with more complete Social Security mortality data for 1973-1978 and with updated Social Security earnings and disability data. It uses the resulting data set to examine the effect of income, controlling for education, on the mortality of white married men aged 35-65. It finds that low income continues to have a large and significant effect on mortality risk, controlling for disability, and on the probability of death through its effect on disability.
The author is an economist at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She wishes to express appreciation to Jerry Hausman, Joel Hay, Harry M. Rosenberg, and Paul Taubman who have made helpful comments on this paper or other versions, and to Fritz Scheuren who has been a pioneer in the development of linked administrative-survey data. She also acknowledges valuable assistance in understanding the contents of Social Security administrative record systems from Warren Buckler, Harry Stamer, and Richard Wehrly. Responsibility for interpretations, methods, and estimation rests with the author alone and not with any of the above individuals or the Social Security Administration.
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