We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short … and behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health, we find that education has a … protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health behaviors - measured …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient´s demand for health services, and that …

data on individuals born in these two months from the British Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England to … investigate the effects of education on health using being February-born as an instrument for education. The results indicate … neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

discounting environment consumption with an environmental discount rate instead of a consumption discount rate that is usually … used in cost-benefit analysis. The present study clarifies that whether or not this dual-rate discounting approach succeeds …

suggests discounting environmental quality at a lower discount rate than the standard consumption discount rate. Recent …

suggests discounting environmental quality at a lower discount rate than the standard consumption discount rate. Recent …

use a special intergenerational discounting technique which actually takes into account intergenerational peculiarities in … with a conventional discounting method. By applying this discounting technique sustainable growth paths of all economic …

Is discounting of future instantaneous utilities consistent with altruism towards future selves? More precisely, can …-utility discounting. None of the usual discount functions satisfy all desiderata, but we propose a simple class of discount functions …