Determinants of health : an economic perspective / Michael Grossman.
"This collection of Michael Grossman's most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic determinants of public health. Each of the book's four sections includes an introduction that contextualizes the issues and addresses the larger stakes of his work....
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The demand for health : theoretical underpinnings and empirical results. On the concept of health capital and the demand for health
- The human capital model
- Part 2. The relationship between health and schooling. The correlation between health and schooling
- An exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in adolescence
- Parental education and child health : evidence from a natural experiment in Taiwan
- Women's education : harbinger of another spring? Evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey
- Part 3. Determinants of infant health with special emphasis on public policies and programs. Variations in infant mortality rates among counties of the United States : the roles of public policies and programs
- Determinants of neonatal mortality rates in the United States : a reduced form model
- Birth outcome production functions in the United States
- Unobservables, pregnancy resolutions, and birth weight production functions in New York City
- The impact of national health insurance on birth outcomes : a natural experiment in Taiwan
- Part 4. The economics of unhealthy behaviors. The effects of government regulation on teenage smoking
- Beer taxes, the legal drinking age, and youth motor vehicle fatalities
- Effects of alcoholic beverage prices and legal drinking ages on youth alcohol use
- Rational addiction and the effect of price on consumption
- An empirical analysis of cigarette addiction
- An empirical analysis of alcohol addiction : results from the monitoring the future panels
- The demand for cocaine by young adults : a rational addiction approach
- An economic analysis of adult obesity : results from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system
- Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on childhood obesity
- Food prices and body fatness among youths.