Hauser, Robert, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2010-04 Abstract Numerous studies find a positive relationship between cognitive ability, IQ as measured in childhood or youth, and subsequent survival. Explanations range from the idea that low ability is an indicator of adverse systemic events in early life to the idea that high cognitive functioning is …
Hauser, Robert, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2010-05 Abstract Numerous studies find a positive relationship between cognitive ability, IQ as measured in childhood or youth, and subsequent survival. Explanations range from the idea that low ability is an indicator of adverse systemic events in early life to the idea that high cognitive functioning is …
Grol Prokopczyk, Hanna, Jeremy Freese, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 2010-09 Abstract This paper identifies a potentially serious problem with the widely used self-rated health (SRH) survey item: that different groups (e.g., different nationalities) have systematically different ways of using the item’s response categories. Analyses based on unadjusted SRH may thus produce misleading or …