Predicting health behaviors with economic preferences and perceived control

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, MA : Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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Series:	Working Papers ; 12-16
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	733841112 [GVK] hdl:10419/96437 [Handle] RePEc:fip:fedbwp:12-16 [RePEc]
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:	EconStor

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10010343350