True Health vs. Response Styles: Exploring Cross-country Differences in Self-reported Health
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- Hendrik Jürges, 2007. "True health vs response styles: exploring cross‐country differences in self‐reported health," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(2), pages 163-178, February.
- Hendrik Jürges, 2006. "True health vs. response styles: Exploring cross-country differences in self-reported health," MEA discussion paper series 06105, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
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Self-assessed health; response bias; cross-national study;JEL classification:
- C83 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EEC-2006-06-17 (European Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2006-06-17 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2006-06-17 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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