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 …

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 …