educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own … education. However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when surrounded by others …

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …