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Risk and Rationality - Effects of contextual risk and cognitive dissonance on (sexual) incentives
Mannberg, Andréa - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010
The thesis consists of an introductory part and four self-contained papers. Paper [I] theoretically analyzes how the level and uncertainty of future prospects affect incentives to abstain from sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. The results suggest that, for individuals with limited...
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Why the Rich drink more but smoke less: The Impact of Wealth on Health Behaviors
Kippersluis, Hans van; Galama, Titus J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost' (2014). Volume 72, pages 197-220.<P> Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and...</p>
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Wealth and health behavior: Testing the concept of a health cost
van Kippersluis, Hans; Galama, Titus J. - In: European Economic Review 72 (2014) C, pp. 197-220
Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by exploiting both inheritances and lottery winnings to test a theory of health behavior. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of...
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Health and education: Understanding the gradient
Strulik, Holger - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2013
This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging … benchmark case a difference in cognitive ability that motivates one more year of education leads to an increase of longevity by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954312
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Optimal aging with uncertain death
Strulik, Holger - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2013
This paper extends the theory of optimal aging and death (Dalgaard and Strulik, 2010, 2013) towards uncertain death … expense of less analytical tractability the model provides a formal description of aging as conceptualized in modern biology …
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Optimal Aging with Uncertain Death
Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2011
This note extends the theory of optimal aging and death (Dalgaard and Strulik, 2010) towards uncertain death …
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Health and Education: Understanding the Gradient
Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2011
This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging … unhealthy behavior and 5 percent more health expenditure and thus explains half a year gain of longevity. Progress in medical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399588
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Optimal Aging and Death: Understanding the Preston Curve
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2010
The present study examines whether the Preston curve reflects a causal impact of income on longevity or, for example … of optimal intertemporal consumption in which the representative consumer is subject to physiological aging. In modeling … aging we draw on recent research in the fields of biology and medicine. The speed of the aging process, and thus the time of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871261
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Procrastination, partial naivete, and behavioral welfare analysis
Asheim, Geir B. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2007
This paper has a dual purpose. First, I present a new modeling of partial naivete, and apply this to the analysis of procrastination. The decision maker is assumed to have stationary behavior and to be partially naive in the sense of perceiving that his current preferences may persist in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652351
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Avoiding poor health or approaching good health: Does it matter? The conceptualization, measurement, and consequences of health regulatory focus
Gomez, Pierrick; Borges, Adilson; Pechmann, Cornelia - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
This research presents a new scale, the health regulatory focus scale, which measures an individual's tendency to use promotion or prevention strategies in the pursuit of health goals. We conducted five studies in France to develop the scale which is made up of two subscales for prevention and...
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