Human Capital and Health Behavior

by Kristian Bolin (Editor), Björn Lindgren (Editor), Michael Grossman (Editor), Dorte Gyrd-Hansen (Editor), Tor Iversen (Editor)

Overview

Human capital is embodied in human beings. It embraces the individual’s capacity to perform and enjoy activities that provide money and/or psychic income. Health behaviour affects human capital and is itself affected by the individual’s human capital. This volume consists of original theoretical and empirical contributions to our knowledge of the interdependence between Human Capital and Health Behaviour.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786354662
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/26/2017
Series:	Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research , #25
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Part I Prenatal Investments and Human Capital Development

Birth Spacing and Educational Outcomes Elaine L. Hill David J. G. Slusky 3

Part II Education and Health

Individual Investments in Education and Health: Policy Responses and Interactions Jared C. Carbone Snorre Kverndokk 33

Causal Effects of Maternal Schooling on Child Immunization in India Prabal K. De 85

Part III Human Capital and Risky Health Behavior

Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Teen Drug Arrests Hope Corman Dhaval M. Dave Ariel Kalil Nancy E. Reichman 111

Behavioral Welfare Economics and FDA Tobacco Regulations Philip DeCicca Donald Kenkel Feng Liu Hua Wang 143

Part IV Information and Health Behavior

Educational Heterogeneity in the Association between Smoking Cessation and Health Information Dean R. Lillard 183

The Effect of Education on Health Behavior after Screening for Colorectal Cancer Eline Aas Tor Iversen Geir Hoff 207

Part V Insurance and Health Behavior

Unemployment Insurance and Physical Activity Jonathan Cylus 245

Biographies 279

Index 287

Editorial Reviews

Health, economics, and policy researchers from Europe, the US, Canada, and China provide eight articles drawn from papers presented at the Symposium on Human Capital and Health Behavior, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May 2016. They consider the relationship between human capital and health behavior, including the relationship between birth spacing and educational outcomes; the relationship between education and health; human capital and risky behavior, including the effects of maternal work incentives on teen drug arrests and a behavioral welfare economics approach to measure the impact of tobacco regulations on consumer welfare; the association between smoking cessation and health information and the effect of education on health behavior after screening for colorectal cancer; and the relationship between unemployment insurance and physical activity.

Annotation ©2017 Ringgold Inc.

Health, economics, and policy researchers from Europe, the US, Canada, and China provide eight articles drawn from papers presented at the Symposium on Human Capital and Health Behavior, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May 2016. They consider the relationship between human capital and health behavior, including the relationship between birth spacing and educational outcomes; the relationship between education and health; human capital and risky behavior, including the effects of maternal work incentives on teen drug arrests and a behavioral welfare economics approach to measure the impact of tobacco regulations on consumer welfare; the association between smoking cessation and health information and the effect of education on health behavior after screening for colorectal cancer; and the relationship between unemployment insurance and physical activity.

Annotation ©2017 Ringgold Inc.