% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw7440, title = "Predictors of Mortality Among the Elderly", author = "Hurd, Michael and McFadden, Daniel and Merrill, Angela", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "7440", year = "1999", month = "December", doi = {10.3386/w7440}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w7440", abstract = {The objective of this paper is to find the quantitative importance of some predictors of mortality among the population aged 70 or over. The predictors are socio-economic indicators (income, wealth and education), thirteen health indicators including a history of heart attack or cancer, and subjective probabilities of survival. The estimation is based on mortality between waves 1 and 2 of the Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest-Old study. We find that the relationship between socio-economic indicators and mortality declines with age 13 health indicators are strong predictors of mortality and that the subjective survival probabilities predict mortality even after controlling for socio-economic indicators and the health conditions.}, }