Predicting health behaviors with economic preferences and perceived control

Lynn Conell-Price and Julian Jamison

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 behaviors than economic preferences.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Conell-Price, Lynn ; Jamison, Julian
Publisher:	Boston, Mass. : Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Subject:	Risikopräferenz \| Risk attitude \| Konsumentenverhalten \| Consumer behaviour \| Gesundheitsrisiko \| Health risk \| Verhalten \| Behaviour \| Gesundheit \| Health \| Rauchen \| Smoking

Extent:	Online-Ressource
Series:	Working papers / Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. - Boston, Mass. : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2180749-8. - Vol. 12-16
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/96437 [Handle]
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10009681237