Individual survival curves comparing subjective and observed mortality risks.

ABSTRACT: We compare individual survival curves constructed from objective (actual mortality) and elicited subjective information (probability of survival to a given target age). We develop a methodology to estimate jointly subjective and objective individual survival curves accounting for rounding on subjective reports of perceived survival. We make use of the long follow-up period in the Health and Retirement Study and the high quality of mortality data to estimate individual survival curves that feature both observed and unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to compare objective and subjective estimates of remaining life expectancy for various groups and compare welfare effects of objective and subjective mortality risk using the life cycle model of consumption. We find that subjective and obj

SUBMITTER: Bissonnette L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784432 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature