The dynamics of health in the British Household Panel Survey
利用英国家庭面板调查8年数据，用动态面板有序probit模型分析健康状态依赖、样本流失和社会经济地位（教育、收入）对健康的影响，发现健康相关流失不影响估计结果，状态依赖显著，异质性解释约30%的未解释变异。
Abstract This paper considers the dynamics of a categorical indicator of self‐assessed health using eight waves (1991–1998) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Our analysis has three focal points: the relative contributions of state dependence and heterogeneity in explaining the dynamics of health, the existence and consequences of health‐related sample attrition, and the investigation of the effects of measures of socioeconomic status, with a particular focus on educational attainment and income. To investigate these issues we use dynamic panel ordered probit models. There is clear evidence of health‐related attrition in the data but this does not distort the estimates of state dependence and of the socioeconomic gradient in health. The models show strong positive state dependence and heterogeneity accounts for around 30% of the unexplained variation in health. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.