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Spouses as home health workers and cooks : insights for applied research
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2023
This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285886
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Spouses as Home Health Workers and Cooks: Insights for Applied Research
Grossbard, Shoshana - 2023
This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377085
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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308440
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Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking of Tomorrow: Income and Risky Choices amongst Young Adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307453
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Sleeping
Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Tinna - 2008
Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306470
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To charge or not to charge: Evidence from a health products experiment in Uganda
Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret; … - 2014
comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369065
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To charge or not to charge : evidence from a health products experiment in Uganda
Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret Mary; … - 2014
comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355764
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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014
a comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health … experiment in Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908063
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Consumer Behaviour, Labour Supply and Diabetes: The Complex Case
Faria, Joao Ricardo - Finance Discipline Group, Business School - 1999
the disease creates incentives that make diabetic's consumption and wieght display cyclical patterns. One implication is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102366
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Smoking and Endogenous Mortality: Does Heterogeneity in Life Expectancy Explain Differences in Smoking Behavior?
Lechene, Valerie; Jéróme Adda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
This paper proposes a joint model of tobacco consumption and mortality over the life-cycle. The decision to smoke is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152496