@article {Baker1067, author = {Michael Baker and Mark Stabile and Catherine Deri}, title = {What Do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?}, volume = {XXXIX}, number = {4}, pages = {1067--1093}, year = {2004}, doi = {10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.4.1067}, publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, abstract = {Survey reports of the incidence of chronic conditions are considered by many researchers to be more objective, and thus preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. In this paper we evaluate this hypothesis by attempting to validate these {\textquotedblleft}objective, self-reported{\textquotedblright} measures of health. Our analysis makes use of a unique data set that matches a variety of self-reports of health with respondents{\textquoteright} medical records. We find that these measures are subject to considerable response error resulting in large attenuation biases when they are used as explanatory variables.}, issn = {0022-166X}, URL = {https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/4/1067}, eprint = {https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/4/1067.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Human Resources} }