. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate … this effect. In the second period, individuals can devote part of their saving to improve their health status and thus … period health care decision: either individuals acknowledge that they have made a mistake in the first period out of myopia …

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. …