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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a sufficiently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. Motivated by the observation that medical care explains...
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This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital … capital, and vice versa. The theory provides a conceptual framework for empirical and theoretical studies aimed at …
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This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital … capital, and vice versa. The theory provides a conceptual framework for empirical and theoretical studies aimed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137437
We estimate a health investment equation, derived from a health capital model that is an extension of the well-known Grossman model. Of particular interest is whether the health production function has constant returns to scale, as in the standard Grossman model, or decreasing returns to scale,...
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We investigate to what extent volunteer-based sampling of large-scale biobanks biases associations and estimate inverse probability (IP) weights to correct for such bias. Using the UK Biobank (UKB) as an example of a large-scale volunteer-based cohort, and population-representative data from the...
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We present a generalized solution to Grossman's model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an "optimalʺ level without adjustment costs. The Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health threshold...
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This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital … capital, and vice versa. The theory provides a conceptual framework for empirical and theoretical studies aimed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490079
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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