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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w20483 |
来源ID | Working Paper 20483 |
Self-regulation and Health | |
Henry Saffer | |
发表日期 | 2014-09-11 |
出版年 | 2014 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The purposes of this paper are to measure self-regulation, to investigate whether self-regulation differs across different health related choices, to estimate its effect on health choices and to estimate the effect of self-regulation on health-demographic gradients. The theory and empirical approach to self-regulation employed in this paper relies on a broad literature which includes economics, psychology and experimental studies. In addition, a novel empirical approach is employed to create a single measure of self-regulation that can vary across domains. A single measure of self-regulation in place of a set of proxy variables allows for the study of how self-regulation is correlated across different health choices. The results show that there is a high correlation in self-regulation for smoking, drinking, drug use, crime and gambling, but that self-regulation for BMI (body mass index) and obesity are different than self-regulation for the other outcomes. The results show that self-regulation has a significant negative effect on all choices. The results also show that self-regulation generally reduces the effect of education on health but education retains a negative and significant relationship with all outcomes. The research presented in this paper also raises questions about the effect of omitted individual heterogeneity in measuring the effects of public policy. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20483 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578155 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Henry Saffer. Self-regulation and Health. 2014. |
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