Human Capital and Health Behavior
This book can be opened with
Note on our eBooks and Audiobooks: you can read our eBooks (ePUB or PDF) and listen to audiobooks on the free Emerald Books app on iOS, Android, and desktop. Or read and listen on Emerald's online reader (ePUB eBooks and audiobooks only). To purchase a digital book you will need to create an account if you don’t already have one. After purchasing you will receive instructions on how to get started.
- Description
- Contents
- Reviews
Introduction Prenatal investments and human capital development Chapter 1. Birth spacing and educational outcomes; Elaine L. Hill and David J.G. Slusky Education and health Chapter 2. Individual investments in education and health: Policy responses and interactions; Jared C. Carbone and Snorre Kverndokk Chapter 3. Causal effects of maternal schooling on child immunization in India; Prabal K. De Human capital and risky health behavior Chapter 4. Effects of maternal work incentives on teen drug arrests; Hope Corman, Dhaval Dave, Ariel Kalil and Nancy E. Reichman Chapter 5. Behavioral welfare economics and FDA tobacco regulations; Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel, Feng Liu and Hua Wang Information and health behavior Chapter 6. Educational heterogeneity in the association between smoking cessation and health information; Dean R. Lillard Chapter 7. The effect of education on health behavior after screening for colorectal cancer; Eline Aas and Tor Iversen Insurance and health behavior Chapter 8. Unemployment insurance and physical activity; Jonathan Cylus
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.