title: Do workers underreport morbidity? The accuracy of self-reports of chronic conditions.
abstract: We use matched Danish health survey and register data to investigate discrepancies between register-based diagnoses and self-reported morbidity. We hypothesize that false negatives (medical diagnoses existing in the register but not reported in the survey) arise partly because individuals fear career repercussions of being discovered suffering a chronic or severe illness that potentially lowers productivity. We find evidence of substantial underreporting, which is indeed systematically higher for individuals in the labor market.
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Denmark.
authors.forename: Nabanita
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Datta Gupta
authors.forename: Hendrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jürges
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D012042:Registries; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D055815:Young Adult