life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample … suicides in comparison to deaths due to pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, and acute heart attack. The choice set consisted of … lives by suicide prevention lower than saving lives from pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, or acute heart attack. …

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality, but the cost-sharing environment for … insurers fully cover cancer screening services as an instrumental variable to estimate the effect of cost sharing on …

inheritances and lottery winnings to test a theory of health behavior. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the … indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost increases with wealth and the degree of …. The empirical evidence presented suggests that differences in health costs may indeed partially explain behavioral …

In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and …

In this paper, I introduce depression to the economics of human health and aging. Based on studies from happiness … fundamentals. The model is used to explain how untreated depression leads to unhealthy behavior and adverse health outcomes …: depressed individuals are predicted to save less, invest less in their health, consume more unhealthy goods, and exercise less …

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …