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...

This paper investigates whether there is a link between numeracy skill and choice consistency using a population of roughly 250 patients enrolled on the waiting list for kidney transplantation in Italy. Patients participate in a discrete choice experiment (DCE) measuring time and risk...

In many countries the demand for health care services is of increasing importance. Especially in the industrialized world with a changing demographic structure social insurances and politics face real challenges. Reliable predictors of those demand functions will therefore become invaluable...

It is crucial to more thoroughly understand discounting behaviour because it has important implications for designing interventions with financial incentives for behavioural change. This means examining discounting functional forms as well as discount rates and establishing their impacts across...

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...

In many countries the demand for health care services is of increasing importance. Especially in the industrialized world with a changing demographic structure social insurances and politics face real challenges. Reliable predictors of those demand functions will therefore become invaluable...

"This book focuses on using non-invasive biomedical sensor devices, IOT solutions, and knowledge database solutions for pre-screening of diseases so that the risk of disease is reduced, or it can be detected early enough to treat the disease most effectively"--Provided by publisher.