We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time … preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control - a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature - is a … stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors than economic preferences. …

People who are simultaneously highly conscientious and highly neurotic have better physiological health than their … not realize they have superior health, an anomaly given the typical convergence of objective and subjective health. The … traits and self-rated health, I find that healthy neurotics do not seem aware of their superior health. The concurrent …

Empirical evidence from several countries reveals that self-rated health is a valid predictor of mortality. So far … the relationship between self-rated health and mortality for Germany. In addition the GSOEP data enable an exploration of …

Background: Studies from several countries have shown that self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality …. However, no empirical evidence exists for Germany so far. We investigate the effectiveness of (i) self-ratings of health by … individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as predictors of mortality for Germany. Methods: A sub-sample of 3 …

information on their health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether educational … attainment is related to early health status within monozygotic twin pairs. In general, we obtain no indication of this being so …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …