Differential mortality and wealth accumulation

In this payer, we examine the role played by differential mortality in estimates of life cycle health profiles. Our study makes three contributions. First, we show that the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) provides reliable data on mortality as compared to the US life table data. Second ne provide estimates of the relationship, between mortality and wealth and show strong evidence of differential mortality. Lastly and most importantly, we show that the differences in mortality by health are large enough to substantially affect the estimated wealth-age profiles.