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Health, Lifestyle and Growth
COPPOLA, Gianluigi - Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica … - 2010
In this paper I will try to explain why lifestyle may have a positive impact on economic growth. First of all, I consider health affecting consumer’s utility and then define a Health Production Function where health is the output and consumer good the input. In this approach a parameter named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799482
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Time and chance happen to them all? Duration modelling versus lifetime incidence of cancer
Howdon, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012
While current work on socioeconomic inequality in cancer looks at lifetime incidence of cancer, it is more informative to consider survival times: healthy time lived without cancer. This paper uses the rst wave of, and latest longitudinal follow-up to, the Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602595
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A discrete latent factor model for smoking, cancer and mortality.
Howdon, D.; Jones, A. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
This paper investigates the relationships between social circumstances, individual behaviours, and ill-health later in life, with a particular focus on the development of cancer. A discrete latent factor model incorporating individuals' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672197
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Self-assessed health as a key determinant of lifestyles: An application to tobacco consumption in Argentina
Conte Grand, Mariana; D'Elia, Vanesa - 2008
a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … multivariate 5 equation probit model. In that model, lifestyles (diet, exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking) are a function of … depends on health indicators that are the consequence of lifestyles undertaken in the past (i.e., overweight, blood pressure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323280
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Self-assessed health as a key determinant of lifestyles: An application to tobacco consumption in Argentina
Grand, Mariana Conte; D´Elia, Vanesa - Universidad del CEMA - 2008
a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … multivariate 5 equation probit model. In that model, lifestyles (diet, exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking) are a function of … depends on health indicators that are the consequence of lifestyles undertaken in the past (i.e., overweight, blood pressure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005668559
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Is it the way you live or the job you have? : health effects of lifestyles and working conditions
Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 17 (2017) 3, pp. 1-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710010
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Socioemotional skills, education, and health-related outcomes of high-ability individuals
Savelyev, Peter; Tan, Kegon - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348507