nep-hea New Economics Papers
on Health Economics
Issue of 2006‒01‒29
eight papers chosen by
Yong Yin
SUNY at Buffalo, USA
  1. Health Values, Preference Inconsistency, and Insurance Demand By Matthias Wrede
  2. Are there Socio-Economic Inequalities in Obesity in Spain? By Joan Costa i Font; Joan Gil
  3. Allowing for heterogeneity in the decomposition of measures of inequality in health By Andrew M. Jones; Ángel López
  4. The Association of Alcohol Dependency with Employment Probability: Evidence from population survey Health 2000 in Finland By Edvard Johansson; Hannu Alho; Urpo Kiiskinen; Kari Poikolainen
  5. Does a Slump Really Make You Thinner? Finnish Micro-level Evidence 1978 -2002 By Petri Böckerman; Edvard Johansson; Satu Helakorpi; Ritva Prättälä; Erkki Vartiainen; Antti Uutela
  6. Abstaining from Alcohol and Labour Market Underperformance - Have we forgotten the `dry` alcoholics? By Edvard Johansson; Hannu Alho; Urpo Kiiskinen; Kari Poikolainen
  7. Health and Retirement. An Update of the Literature By Matthias Deschryvere
  8. Alcohol Mortality, Drinking Behavior, and Business Cycles: Are Slumps Really Dry Seasons? By Edvard Johansson; Petri Böckerman; Ritva Prättälä; Antti Uutela
  1. By: Matthias Wrede
    Abstract: Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people’s attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model for studying the implications of this phenomenon on health insurance and on demand for medical care. It considers the insurance demand of different types of agents: naive individuals, individuals who are able to commit to medical care demand and sophisticated individuals. Furthermore, it raises the question of whether inconsistency of preferences reinforces or tones down moral hazard problems.
    Keywords: health insurance, medical care, health state, behavioural economics, prospect theory, time inconsistency
    JEL: D82 D91 G22 I11
    Date: 2005
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_1634&r=hea
  2. By: Joan Costa i Font; Joan Gil
    Abstract: Obesity is one of the main health policy concerns in western societies today. In spite of its strong policy implications, the research devoted to the issue has been somewhat limited. This paper empirically examines the existence of income-related inequalities in obesity in Spain, using the National Health Survey (2001) and recently developed methods to estimate inequalities in obesity and its decomposition. Our findings indicate evidence of significant income inequalities in obesity prevalence. Yet, the contribution of education is the main explanatory variable of the prevalence of obesity, followed by income, physical exercise and region of residence. The results suggest that the individual's social environment is a non-dismissible variable in explaining the proliferation of obesity in Spain.
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fda:fdaeee:217&r=hea
  3. By: Andrew M. Jones; Ángel López
    Abstract: This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an application to the GHQ measure of psychological well-being taken from the British Household Panel Survey. The results suggest that there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the association of health to explanatory variables across birth cohorts and genders which, in turn, accounts for a substantial percentage of the inequality in observed health.
    Keywords: Health inequalities, heterogeneity, decomposition analysis, panel data
    JEL: D63 I12 C21
    Date: 2004–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:upf:upfses:929&r=hea
  4. By: Edvard Johansson; Hannu Alho; Urpo Kiiskinen; Kari Poikolainen
    JEL: I12 J23
    Date: 2004–08–09
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rif:dpaper:921&r=hea
  5. By: Petri Böckerman; Edvard Johansson; Satu Helakorpi; Ritva Prättälä; Erkki Vartiainen; Antti Uutela
    Keywords: overweight, business cycles, health
    JEL: E32 I12 R11
    Date: 2004–09–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rif:dpaper:928&r=hea
  6. By: Edvard Johansson; Hannu Alho; Urpo Kiiskinen; Kari Poikolainen
    Keywords: alcoholism, abstinence, work probability
    JEL: I12 J69
    Date: 2004–09–24
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rif:dpaper:931&r=hea
  7. By: Matthias Deschryvere
    Date: 2004–09–27
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rif:dpaper:932&r=hea
  8. By: Edvard Johansson; Petri Böckerman; Ritva Prättälä; Antti Uutela
    Keywords: alcohol mortality, drinking, business cycles
    JEL: E32 I12 R11
    Date: 2005–06–17
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rif:dpaper:986&r=hea
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