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Individual Investments in Education and Health: Policy Responses and Interactions☆

In: Human Capital and Health Behavior

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  • Jared C. Carbone
  • Snorre Kverndokk

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Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that determines an individual’s demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual’s decisions of policy instruments such as subsidies on medical care, subsidizing schooling, income tax reduction, lump-sum transfers, and improving health at young age. Our results indicate that income redistribution policies may be the best instrument to improve welfare, while a medical care subsidy is the best instrument for longevity. Subsidies to medical care or education would require large imperfections in these markets to be more welfare improving than distributional policies.

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  • Jared C. Carbone & Snorre Kverndokk, 2017. "Individual Investments in Education and Health: Policy Responses and Interactions☆," Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, in: Human Capital and Health Behavior, volume 25, pages 33-83, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:aheszz:s0731-219920170000025002
    DOI: 10.1108/S0731-219920170000025002
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    Keywords

    C61; D91; I12; I21; Demand for health; demand for education; human capital; numerical modeling; causality;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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