Human Capital and Health Behavior.

Front Cover -- Human Capital and Health Behavior -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- References -- Part I: Prenatal Investments and Human Capital Development -- Birth Spacing and Educational Outcomes -- Introduction -- Background -- Conceptual Framework -- Methodology -- Data -- Results -- Robustness Checks -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Part II: Education and Health -- Individual Investments in Education and Health: Policy Responses and Interactions -- Introduction -- Empirical Evidence on the Causal Effects -- A Two-Period Model -- The Numerical Model -- Calibration Procedure -- Calibration Results -- Policy Experiments -- Policy Scenarios -- Simulation Results -- Effects on Investments -- Utility and Life Extension -- Exploring the Importance of Causal Linkages between Education and Health -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A: Solving the Two-Period Model -- Appendix B: Symbol Definitions in the Numerical Model -- Variables -- Parameters -- Appendix C: Description of the Numerical Model Calibration Procedure -- First-Stage Calibration -- Second-Stage Calibration -- Third-Stage Calibration -- Causal Effects of Maternal Schooling on Child Immunization in India -- Introduction -- Child Immunization in the Developing World and India -- Menstruation, Sanitation, and School Education -- Data and Descriptive Statistics -- Econometric Strategy -- Instrumental Validity - First-Stage Results -- Instrumental Validity - Exogeneity -- Results -- Main Results - The Effects of Maternal Schooling on the Completion of Child Immunization after Birth for BCG, DPT, and Measles Vaccine -- Additional Results - The Effects of Maternal Schooling on Individual Immunizations -- Discussion, Caveats, and Limitation -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

References -- Part III: Human Capital and Risky Health Behavior -- Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Teen Drug Arrests -- Introduction -- Background -- Welfare Reform in the United States -- Effects of Welfare Reform on Teen Behaviors -- Potential Pathways from Welfare Reform to Teen Drug Use -- Data, Measures, and Trends -- Measures of Drug Arrests -- Characterizing Welfare Reform -- Trends in Drug Arrests -- Methods -- Results -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Behavioral Welfare Economics and FDA Tobacco Regulations -- Introduction -- Categorizing FDA Tobacco Regulations -- FDA Tobacco Regulations: Model and Welfare Analysis -- A Two-Period Model of Smoking and FDA Regulations -- Welfare Analysis -- Information Needed for CBA of FDA Regulations -- Information on FDA Regulations and Cigarette Demand -- The Consumer Surplus Offset -- Re-examining the Evidence Base on Internalities -- Evidence Base from Chaloupka et al. (2015) -- Evidence Base from Cutler et al. (2015) -- Potential of Empirical Approaches to Estimate Tobacco-Related Internalities -- Structural Estimation of Models of Internalities -- Evidence from Comparison Groups of Consumers -- Internalities and Subjective Well-Being -- Consumer Demand for Commitment Devices and Nudges -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV: Information and Health Behavior -- Educational Heterogeneity in the Association between Smoking Cessation and Health Information -- Introduction -- Background -- Data and Methods -- US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) -- Taxes -- Measuring Health Risk Information -- Information Flow and Information Stock Data -- Empirical Strategy -- Results -- Conclusion and Future Work -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- The Effect of Education on Health Behavior after Screening for Colorectal Cancer.

Introduction -- Study Setting -- Human Capital and Health Behavior -- Data -- Empirical Specification -- Education and the Health Certificate Effect (HCE) -- Results -- Concluding Remarks -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Diagnosis Included -- Descriptives -- Part V: Insurance and Health Behavior -- Unemployment Insurance and Physical Activity -- Introduction -- Background -- Literature Review -- Unemployment Insurance in the United States -- UI Modernization: Alternate Base Periods -- Methods -- Data -- Empirical strategy -- Results -- Descriptive statistics -- Main Results -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Biographies -- Index.

This Volume focuses on human capital and health behavior. Content is based on an International symposium on Human Capital and Health Behavior, held by The Centre for Health Economics at the University of Gothenburg. Content will cover both theoretical and empirical aspects of the topic.

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