Selective Migration and Health

33 Pages Posted: 23 May 2008 Last revised: 6 May 2023

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Timothy Halliday

University of Hawaii - Department of Economics; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Michael Kimmitt

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Abstract

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health distribution reduces mobility by 32-40%. Non-random attrition from the panel implies that these are lower bounds. By contrast, we find evidence that, among older men, there is higher mobility at the top and bottom of the health distribution than there is in the middle. For women, we find no evidence of a relationship between their own health and mobility, although spousal health does affect the mobility of married women.

Keywords: migration, health, selection, attrition

JEL Classification: J61

Suggested Citation

Halliday, Timothy and Kimmitt, Michael, Selective Migration and Health. IZA Discussion Paper No. 3458, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1136179 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1136179

Timothy Halliday (Contact Author)

University of Hawaii - Department of Economics ( email )

Honolulu, HI 96822
United States

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

Michael Kimmitt

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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