Thanasis Stengos () (University of Guelph, Canada and The Rimini Centre for Economics Analysis, Rimini, Italy.) Yiguo Sun () (University of Guelph, Canada)
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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 nonlinearity and data heterogeneity, we use a partially linear semiparametric quantile regression model. The “absolute income hypothesis” is partially true; the negative aging effects appear more pronounced for the illhealthy population than for the healthy population and when annual income is below 40,000 Canadian dollars.
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