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Labor Supply, Schooling and the Returns to Healthcare in Tanzania
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Adhvaryu,   Achyuta; Nyshadham,   Anant.
We estimate the effects of higher quality healthcare usage on health, labor supply and schooling outcomes for sick individuals in Tanzania. Using exogenous variation in the cost of formal sector healthcare to predict treatment choice, we show that using better quality care improves health outcomes and changes the allocation of time amongst productive activities. In particular, sick adults who receive better quality care reallocate time from non-farm to farm labor, leaving total labor hours unchanged. Among sick children, school attendance significantly increases as a result of receiving higher quality healthcare, but labor allocations are unaffected. We interpret these results as evidence that healthcare has heterogeneous effects on marginal productivity...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor supply; Health shocks; Schooling; Tanzania; Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital; I10; J22; J43; O12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107260

ACT Now or Later: The Economics of Malaria Resistance
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Laxminarayan,   Ramanan.
In the past, malaria control efforts in sub-Saharan Africa have relied on a combination of vector control and effective treatment using chloroquine. With increasing resistance to chloroquine, attention has now turned to alternative treatment strategies to replace this failing drug. Although there are strong theoretical arguments in favor of switching to more expensive artemisinin-based combination treatments (ACTs), the validity of these arguments in the face of financial constraints has not been previously analyzed. In this paper, we use a Bioeconomic model of malaria transmission and evolution of drug resistance to examine questions of optimal treatment strategy and coverage when drug resistance places an additional constraint on choices available to the...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Malaria; Mathematical models; Drug resistance; Bioeconomics; Health Economics and Policy; I10; I19; C61.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10699

Can Nutrition Labeling Affect Obesity?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Arsenault,   Joanne E.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Nutrition labeling; Food labels; Menu labeling; Obesity; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; I10; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95753

The Effect of Retail Grocery Coupons for Breakfast Cereals on Household Purchasing Behavior
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Berning,   Joshua P.; Zheng,   Hualu.
We examine the affect of retail and manufacturer coupons on the nutritional quality of breakfast cereal purchases made by households. Using household level purchase data we find that coupon usage has a significant impact on the nutritional quality of cereals purchased by households. Specifically, we find that the average sugar content decreases and the fiber content increases. This suggests that coupons have a positive impact on the nutritional quality of cereals purchased by households, holding all other factors constant.   Given the prolific use of coupons by households and the fact that they offer both a price discount and an advertisement for products, they might be an effective way to help guide consumers to healthier food choices.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Coupons; Breakfast cereal; Nutrition; Panel data; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Marketing; D10; I10; M30; C23.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103661

Animal Health Economics. What Can It Do? What Are the Big Questions?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Tisdell,   Clement A.
It is argued that while considerable development of animal health economics has occurred in recent decades, it has not yet achieved its potential coverage. It has been mostly applied to livestock, particularly livestock used for commerce, and its application to a range of other animals has been relatively neglected. Extending its coverage also requires widening the type of objectives taken into account in the analysis. Furthermore, the main focus of animal health economics has been on the economics of controlling and managing the occurrence of diseases. The economic role of genetics, the environment, nutrition and the comfort of animals in their health ought to be given greater attention. In the case of zoonoses, the economic analysis should be extended to...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Animal health economics; Diseases; Health economics; Information economics; Precautionary principle; Public economics; Zoonoses; Farm Management; Health Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries; Public Economics; I10; Q19.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97472

MOVING TO THE LAND OF FROSTED CAKES AND FRIED FOOD: IMMIGRANT OBESITY IN THE U.S.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Liu,   Jing; Waldorf,   Brigitte S.
The paper focuses on body weight gain among immigrants in the US. The emphasis is on disentangling different time lines that are relevant in the context of immigration and acculturation, namely length of exposure to the high obesity culture, age at immigration, year of immigration and aging. Using data from the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), we find that (1) acculturation is associated with higher BMIs for the 1st generation, but not the 1.5 generation; (2) immigration at an early age (before 12) facilitates acculturation progress and drives BMI convergence to natives; (3) the effect of sojourn length in the host country is unstable across model specifications; (4) BMI differences between Asian and Latino immigrants are partly due to...
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: Immigration; Obesity; Acculturation; Health Economics and Policy; I10; J15.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120896

THE DEMAND FOR FOOD QUALITY IN RUSSIA AND ITS LINKAGE TO OBESITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Staudigel,   Matthias.
This study analyses whether Russian households differ in their choice of food quality when they differ in their number of overweight and obese members. Using survey data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for the years 1995-2005, households are classified into three weight groups. Quality elasticities of expenditures are estimated by a fixed-effects panel model regressing unit values of several food groups on expenditures and a set of household characteristics. Coefficients for each weight group are received by including interaction terms of expenditures and weight group dummies. A set of Wald tests is applied to test for slope heterogeneity across weight groups. Descriptive statistics reveal that obese households actually purchase...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Unit values; Quality choice; Quality elasticity; Obesity; Russia; RLMS; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C23; D12; I10; I18; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116444

Fat Taxes and Thin Subsidies: Distributional Impacts and Welfare Effects
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Salois,   Matthew J.; Tiffin,   J. Richard.
The extant literature on fat taxes and thin subsidies tends to focus on the overall effectiveness of such fiscal instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on society. This paper fills a gap in the literature by assessing the distributional impacts and welfare effects resulting from a tax-subsidy combination on different food groups. Using the methods derived from marginal tax reform theory, a formal welfare economics framework is developed allowing the calculation of the distributional characteristics of various food groups and approximate welfare measures of prices changes caused by a tax-subsidy combination. The distributional characteristics reveal that many of the food...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Distributional characteristic; Fat tax; Obesity; Thin subsidy; Welfare.; Health Economics and Policy; D30; D60; H20; I10; I30.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91754

Ascertaining the Impact of the 2000 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans on the Intake of Calories, Caffeine, Calcium, and Vitamin C from At-Home Consumption of Nonalcoholic Beverages
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.; Clauson,   Annette L.
Obesity is one of the most pressing and widely emphasized health problems in America today. Beverage choices made by households have impacts on determining the intake of calories, calcium, caffeine, and vitamin C. Using data from the Nielsen Homescan Panel over the period 1998–2003, and a two-way random-effects Fuller-Battese error components procedure, we estimate econometric models to examine economic and demographic factors affecting per-capita daily intake of calories, calcium, caffeine, and vitamin C derived from the consumption of nonalcoholic beverages. Our study demonstrates the effectiveness of the USDA 2000 Dietary Guidelines in reducing caloric and nutrient intake associated with nonalcoholic beverages.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Nielsen Homescan Panel; Nonalcoholic beverages; Nutrient and caloric intake; USDA Dietary Guidelines; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D10; D12; I10; I18.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100632

An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chen,   Yanni; Huffman,   Wallace E.
This paper examines women’s and men’s decisions to participate in physical activity and to attain a healthy weight. These outcomes are hypothesized to be related to prices of food, drink and health care services and products, the respondent’s personal characteristics (such as education, reading food labels, adjusted family income, opportunity cost of time, occupation, marital status, race and ethnicity) and his or her BMI at age 25. These decisions are represented by a trivariate probit model that is fitted to data for adults in the NLSY79 panel with geocodes that have been augmented with local area food, drink and health care prices.  Separate analyses are undertaken for men and women due to basic physiological differences. Results include: Women and men...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Physical Activity; Obesity; Food Prices; Adult; United States; Consumer/Household Economics; Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital; I10; D10; J24.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49291

Healthcare Choices, Information and Health Outcomes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Adhvaryu,   Achyuta; Nyshadham,   Anant.
Self-selection into healthcare options on the basis of severity likely biases estimates of the effects of healthcare choice on health outcomes. Using an instrumental variables strategy which exploits exogenous variation in the cost of formal-sector care, we show that using such care to treat acute sickness decreases the incidence of fever and malaria in young children in Tanzania. Compared to the instrumental variables estimates, ordinary least squares estimates significantly understate the effects of formal-sector healthcare use on health outcomes. Improved information and more timely treatment, rather than greater access to medicines, seem to be the primary mechanisms for this effect.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Healthcare; Information; Child health; Tanzania; Health Economics and Policy; International Development; I10; I18; O10; O12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107257

Factors Influencing the Body Mass Index of Adults in Canada
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cranfield,   John A.L.
This paper explores socio-demographic, economic and behaviour factors influencing body mass index (BMI) amongst 20 to 64 year old adults in Canada. BMI scores in Canada have increased, with gains stemming from disproportionate increases in female BMI. Econometric results indicate higher BMI scores for males, those born in Canada, those in food insecure homes and whites. Age-gender interactions suggest different patterns of BMI adjustment over the life of males and females; a pronounced inverse quadratic relationship between with age and male BMI is noted, while female BMI increases with age. Education, used as a gauge of inequality, is inversely related to BMI, while income has a muted effect. BMI is inversely related to level of physical activity, an...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Obesity; BMI; Canada; Socio-demographic; Economic; Adults; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; I10; J1.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6837

Obesity, BMI, and Diet Quality: How does the South Measure Up?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Duffy,   Patricia A.; Zizza,   Claire A.; Kinnucan,   Henry W.
This paper examines regional differences in obesity rates, Body Mass Index (BMI) and dietary quality, using data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Mobile Examination Center (MEC).  For women, BMI and obesity prevalence may be higher in the Deep South states, but the difference is explained by demographic characteristics.  Diet quality was found to be lower in the South.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Obesity; Diet quality; Food insecurity; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; I10; I30.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46558

Do Environmental Interventions Impact Elementary School Students’ Lunchtime Milk Selection?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Waite,   Alexandra; Goto,   Keiko; Chan,   Kenny; Giovanni,   Maria; Wolff,   Cindy.
This research examines whether environmentally based intervention strategies increase elementary students’ selection of white milk. At intervention school one, white milk was easily accessible, but students had to ask for chocolate milk. As an outcome, students increased their selection of white milk compared to control school students (p≤0.001). At intervention school two, the visual cue of a threefold greater quantity of white compared to chocolate milk did not significantly alter selection patterns. This research indicates that requiring students to ask for an item rather than self-serve can help modify food selections and serve as a tool for obesity prevention.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Milk consumption; School lunch; Behavioral economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; A12; I10.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123513

Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mete,   Cem; Schultz,   T. Paul.
Estimates are reported of the consequences of health on participation in the labor force of elderly men and women in Taiwan from 1989 to 1996. Three survey indicators of individual health are examined, and two are estimated by instrumental variables (IV), using as instruments parent longevity, birthplace, and childhood conditions. IV estimates of health’s effect on participation are in most cases significant and always positive, and about twice the magnitude of the ordinary least squares estimates, and the hypothesis that health is exogenous and measured without error is rejected. Implementation in 1995 of a National Health Insurance (NHI) shifted to the state the growing cost of elderly health care, and reduced the incentive for elderly to work to receive...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor force participation; Elderly; Health status; National Health Insurance; Taiwan; Labor and Human Capital; J22; J26; I10; I18.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28470

Public Policies and the Demand for Carbonated Soft Drinks: A Censored Quantile Regression Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gustavsen,   Geir Waehler.
Heavy consumption of soda may contribute to obesity, strokes, and cardiac problems. From a health perspective, the distribution of the consumption is at least as important as the mean. Censored as well as ordinary quantile regression techniques were used to estimate the demand for sugary soda based on household data from 1989 to 1999. It was found that heavy drinkers are more price- and expenditure-responsive than are light drinkers. The study shows that increasing the taxes on carbonated soft drinks will lead to a small reduction in consumption for small and moderate consumers and a huge reduction for heavy consumers.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Soda demand; Quantile regression; Taxes; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; I10.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24737

Functional Ingredients and Food Choice: Results from a Choice Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fraser,   Iain; Bitzios,   Michael; Haddock-Fraser,   Janet.
In this paper we present the results of a Choice Experiment (CE) conducted to examine how the inclusion of an attribute for a functional ingredient affects consumer food choice. Specifically, we examine consumer attitudes towards bread and the inclusion of a functional ingredient (eg, inulin), which can be added to bread to increase the quantity and the effectiveness of fibre in the final product A novel feature of the design of this CE was the use of Means-End-Chain analysis via semi-structured interviews to reveal key attributes to be included in the CE. In addition, the CE included the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) so as to collect information on all participants underlying eating behaviours. Preliminary analysis of the data reveals that...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Functional Food; Bread; Choice Experiment; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; I10; Q10; R22.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91755

Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Irz,   Xavier T.
Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in demand models; and 2- not measured at final/retail level in national statistics. The paper develops a solution by establishing explicitly the theoretical link between composite demand and physical quantities, from which a novel empirical approach to the estimation of nutrient elasticities is derived. It is applied to Finnish aggregate data from the National Accounts and Food Balance Sheets over the 1975-2006 period, and the results are used to assess the potential...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Demand analysis; Aggregation theory; Physical consumption; Nutrition; Nutrient elasticity; Finland; Fat tax; Nutritional policy.; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; I10; Q18; Q11.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50324

Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gallipoli,   Giovanni; Turner,   Laura.
What are idiosyncratic shocks and how do people respond to them? This paper starts from the observation that idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential to the analysis of intra-household allocations, especially labor supply. Using longitudinal data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) we exploit information about disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to idiosyncratic shocks. Two puzzling findings associated to disability onset motivate our work: (1) the almost complete absence of `added worker' effects...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Idiosyncratic Risk; Disability; Life Cycle Labor Supply; Intrahousehold Insurance; Labor and Human Capital; D13; I10; J12; J22.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55323

The Impacts of Fat Taxes and Thin Subsidies on Nutrient Intakes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Salois,   Matthew J.; Tiffin,   J. Richard.
This paper examines the health effects of a fiscal food policy based on a combination of fat taxes and thin subsidies. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of food items while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and vegetable items. The policy is designed to be revenue neutral so the subsidy exactly offsets the revenue from the fat tax. A model of food demand is estimated using Bayesian methods that accounts for censoring and infrequency of purchase (the problem of unit values is also discussed). The estimated demand elasticities are used to compute nutrient elasticities which demonstrate how consumption of specific nutrients changes based on price changes in particular foods from the fiscal policy. Results show that although the fat...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Fat tax; Nutrient elasticities; Obesity; Thin subsidy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D30; D60; H20; I10; I30.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108789

The Costs of Obesity and Implications for Policymakers
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Finkelstein,   Eric A.; Strombotne,   Kiersten L.; Popkin,   Barry M.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Obesity; Direct Costs; Indirect Costs; Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; I10; I18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95747

A Comparison of Actual and Hypothetical Willingness to Pay of Parents and Non-Parents for Protecting Infant Health: The Case of Nitrates in Drinking Water
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Loomis,   John B.; Bell, Paul; Cooney, Helen; Asmus, Cheryl.
We estimate adults’ willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce health risks to their own or other families’ infants to test for altruism. A conjoint analysis of adults paying for bottled water found marginal WTP for reduction in risk of shock, brain damage, and mortality in the cash treatment of $2, $3.70, and $9.43, respectively. In the hypothetical market these amounts were $14, $26, and $66, indicating substantial hypothetical bias, although not unexpected due to the topic of infant health. Statistical tests confirm a high degree of altruism in our WTP results, and altruism held even when real money was involved.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Altruism; Conjoint; Drinking water; Nitrates; Validity; Willingness to pay; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; I10; Q53.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56657

THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF A FISCAL FOOD POLICY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Salois,   Matthew J.; Tiffin,   J. Richard.
This paper examines the health effects of a fiscal food policy based on a combination of fat taxes and thin subsidies. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of food items while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and vegetable items. The policy is designed to be revenue neutral so that the subsidy exactly offsets the revenue from the fat tax. A model of food demand is estimated using Bayesian methods that accounts for censoring and infrequency of purchase (the problem of unit values is also discussed). The estimated of demand elasticities are used to compute nutrient elasticities which demonstrate how consumption of specific nutrients changes based on price changes in particular foods from the fiscal policy. Results show that while the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Bayesian estimation; Censoring; Fat tax; Infrequency of purchase; Nutrient elasticities; Obesity; Thin subsidy; Unit values; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D30; D60; H20; I10; I30.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116394

Direct and Indirect Determinants of Obesity: The Case of Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Romling,   Cornelia; Qaim,   Matin.
Overweight and obesity are becoming serious issues in many developing countries. Since undernutrition is not completely eradicated yet, these countries face a dual burden that obstructs economic development. We analyze the nutrition transition in Indonesia using longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family and Life Survey, covering the period between 1993 and 2007. Obesity has been increasing remarkably across all population groups, including rural and low income strata. Prevalence rates are particularly high for women. We also develop a framework to analyze direct and indirect determinants of body mass index. This differentiation has rarely been made in previous research, but appears useful for policy making purposes. Regression models show that changing...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Obesity; Overweight; Nutrition Transition; Asia; Indonesia; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; I10; O12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108350

PEER-EFFECTS IN OBESITY AMONG PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN: A GRADE-LEVEL ANALYSIS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Asirvatham,   Jebaraj; Nayga,   Rodolfo M., Jr.; Thomsen,   Michael R.
We examine the role of peer effects in childhood obesity outcomes by investigating whether obesity rates among the highest graders in a public school has an effect on obesity rates among younger grades. We use a panel dataset with obesity prevalence measured at the grade level. Our data are from Arkansas public schools. Results provide evidence that changes in the obesity prevalence at the highest grade are associated with changes in obesity prevalence at younger grades. The magnitude of the peer effect depends on the type of school, and we find statistically significant peer effects in both elementary and high schools but not in middle schools. These effects are also larger in high schools than in elementary schools. We use falsification tests to provide...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Peer-effects; Obesity; Childhood obesity; Overweight; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D10; D71; I10; Z13.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122732

Micro-Savings &amp; Informal Insurance in Villages: A Field Experiment on Indirect Effects of Financial Deepening on Safety Nets of the Poor
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Flory,   Jeffrey A.
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/28/11.    Former title: Indirect Effects of Microfinance: A Field Experiment on Formal Savings Expansion and Informal Safety Nets of the Ultra-Poor
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Microfinance; Formal savings; Indirect effects; Safety nets; Poverty; Food security; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Financial Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; O17; O16; O12; I30; I38; I10.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103905

THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE HEALTHY, BUT ARE THEY? HEALTH PERCEPTIONS IN THE U.S.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ross,   Kara L.; Amanor-Boadu,   Vincent.
Public health initiatives are the result of strategies developed to address current health issues facing a population that are posing a significant concern to the public. This concern is primarily driven by the economics of health care. The objective of this study is to provide a contemporary analysis of how socio-economic and behavioral factors influence subjective health status. By understanding how these factors influence perceived health status, we can develop successful policies and strategies to target those groups who have a gap between their perceived and real health status and significantly lower health care costs. This analysis makes use of the socio-economic and behavioral data from the 2005-2006 NHANES and an extension of the traditional...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Self-perception; Health status; Education; Ordered logit; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; I10; D03.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116438

The Distributional Consequences of a Fiscal Food Policy: Evidence From the UK
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Salois,   Matthew J.; Tiffin,   J. Richard.
The extant literature on fat taxes and thin subsidies tends to focus on the overall effectiveness of such fiscal instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on society. This paper fills a gap in the literature by assessing the distributional impacts and welfare effects resulting from a tax-subsidy combination on different food groups. Using the methods derived from marginal tax reform theory, a formal welfare economics framework is developed allowing the calculation of the distributional characteristics of various food groups and approximate welfare measures of prices changes caused by a tax-subsidy combination. The distributional characteristics reveal that many of the food...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Distributional characteristic; Economic welfare; Fat tax; Indirect tax reform; Obesity; Thin subsidy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D30; D60; H20; I10; I30.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61360

An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chen,   Yanni; Huffman,   Wallace E.
This paper examines women’s and men’s decisions to participate in physical activity and to attain a healthy weight. These outcomes are hypothesized to be related to prices of food, drink and health care services and products, the respondent’s personal characteristics (such as education, reading food labels (signaling a concern for good health), adjusted family income, opportunity cost of time, occupation, marital status, race and ethnicity) and his or her BMI at age 25. These decisions are represented by a trivariate probit model that is fitted to data for adults in the NLSY79 panel with geocodes that have been augmented with local area food, drink and health care prices. Separate analyses are undertaken for men and women due to basic physiological...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Physical activity; Obesity; Food prices; Adults; Developed country; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; I10; D10; J24.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49987

Quantifying Obesity in Economic Research: How Misleading is the Body Mass Index?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Parks,   Joanna C.; Smith,   Aaron D.; Alston,   Julian M.
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/19/10.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Obesity; Percent body fat (PBF); Body mass index (BMI); Economic costs; Measurement error; Health Economics and Policy; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; C52; I10.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61841

The demand for health: differences between the native Dutch and immigrants in the Netherlands
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cornelisse-Vermaat,   Judith R.; Maassen van den Brink,   Henriette.
This paper estimates the demand for health by using a health capital model for different population groups (native Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean, Moroccan, and Turkish) in the Netherlands. Also the effect of overweight on health utility is investigated. We found a decrease in the demand for health for age, overweight, and smoking, we found an increase in the demand for health for level of education and marital status. The analyses show a strong effect of gender. Being female in all groups is negatively related to health utility. Turkish and Moroccan ethnicity is negatively related to health status.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Demand for health; Health production; Ethnicity; Overweight; Food habits; Health Economics and Policy; C24; C25; I10; I12.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46731

Labor Complementarities and Health in the Agricultural Household
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Adhvaryu,   Achyuta; Nyshadham,   Anant.
Models of the agricultural household have traditionally relied on assumptions regarding the complementarity or substitutability of family labor inputs. We show how data on time allocations, health shocks and corresponding treatment choices can be used to test these assumptions. Data from Tanzania provide evidence that complementarities exist and can explain the pattern of labor supply adjustments across household members and productive activities following acute sickness. In particular, we find that sick and healthy household members both shift labor away from self-employment and into farming when the sick recover more quickly. Infra-marginal adjustments within farming activity types provide further evidence of farm-specific complementarities.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Intra-household allocation; Health shocks; Complementarity; Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital; I10; J22; J43; O12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107263