This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …

theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and …In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … addiction develops. I argue that the life cycle consumption pattern predicted for common addiction is more suitable for …

detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological … state of health affects health spending, life expectancy, and the value of life. In counterfactual computational experiments … lifetime utility, health investments, and longevity. We then use the model to contribute to the literature on information …

thereby, in the context of health economics, not enough investment in health and too much indulgence of unhealthy consumption … health than they would if they had a constant rate of time preference. Using a calibrated life-cycle model of human aging, we … high weight in life time utility. In an extension we show that the introduction of health-dependent survival probability …

In this paper, I combine economic theories of health behavior and addiction in order to explain the phenomenon of … anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity. Individuals consume normal goods and foods and can work off excess … calories with physical exercise. There exists a healthy body mass index and deviations from it increasingly cause health …

model with endogenous aging and longevity. Individuals can slow down aging and postpone death by health investments and by … reducing unhealthy consumption, conceptualized as smoking. We show that individuals continuously revise their original plans to … smoke less and invest more in their health. Consequently, they accumulate health deficits faster and die earlier than …