The Evolution of Latent Health over the Life Course

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The Evolution of Latent Health over the Life Course Fabian Lange and Douglas McKee (Yale University) Dec 21st, 2011 Abstract We propose a new method to estimate rich dynamic models of health that exploits longitudinal observations of multiple health measures. Our method adapts and combines two techniques …rst developed in di¤erent contexts. In a …rst step, we use factor analytic methods to estimate a series of age-speci…c static measurement models that determine how underlying latent health is related to observed discrete and continuous measures.

• health index
• measure of lung
• need for multiple measurements of health
• dynamic models of health
• physical measure
• measurement speci…c components
• health measures
• health
• model
• age