Analysis of an original nationwide Internet survey reveals that health-related behavior shows associations with three … are indicative of being a time-inconsistent procrastinator, and classified as sophisticated otherwise. The health …-related indicators that we examine relate to smoking, health condition, dentition status, and body habitus. We first show that a higher …

This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

This chapter reviews the existing empirical evidence on how social insurance affects health. Social insurance … encompasses programs primarily designed to insure against health risks, such as health insurance, sick leave insurance, accident …. Surprisingly, evidence on how changes in coverage impact beneficiaries' health is scant and inconclusive. This lack of identified …

household income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance factors in both Japan and the USA. Using these two … rises, households have a positive effect on purchasing health insurance as a normal good. Another similarity between the two … pure health issuance characteristics, an increase in premium of health insurance policies cause individuals to substitute …

: health care, healthrelated behaviours and lifestyle, and medical knowledge. …

This paper aims to unravel the competing effects of the health investment. It explores, both analytically and … numerically, the equilibrium shift and transitional dynamics after a one-time policy of health investment. We find that such a … policy improves health status in the long run, but harms economic growth in both short and long term. The relative sizes of …

This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic model of health, addiction, education, and wealth in order to understand … the well-established positive empirical relationship between education and health. In our model, agents make decisions on … cognitive and noncognitive skills and initial health and face endogenously-determined borrowing constraints. The consumption of …

health status of the population. The present study develops a methodology and presents preliminary estimates of how standard … economic measures would change if they adequately reflected improvements in health status. The study first discusses the theory … concept called 'health income' that can be used to incorporate improvements in health status. The study next discusses how the …