期刊名称：HIER Discussion Paper Series / Harvard Institute of Economic Research
出版年度：2005
卷号：2005
出版社：Harvard Institute of Economic Research
摘要：We explore economic model of health behaviors. While the standard economic model
of health as an investment is generally supported empirically, the ability of
this model to explain heterogeneity across individuals is extremely limited.
Most prominently, the correlation of different health behaviors across people is
virtually zero, suggest that standard factors such as variation in discount
rates or the value of life are not the drivers of behavior. We focus instead on
two other factors: genetics; and behavioral-specific situational factors. The
first factor is empirically important, and we suspect the second is as well.
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