Abstract

Understanding the decisions that individuals make about their health is an important ingredient in understanding the differences in health outcomes across demographic and socioeconomic groups, and health improvements over time. This proposal examines behavioral decisions that individuals make affecting their health and attempts to explain the reasons for differences across individuals.
Our specific aims are: (1) to document and compare trends in health behaviors across demographic groups, and to examine the correlation of favorable and adverse health behaviors across people; (2) to develop theoretical models of decision-making that incorporate different decision processes, and to catalogue the implications of these models; and (3) to use time series data over the past forty years and recent panel data sets, to determine which theories are consistent with the data.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01AG005842-21
Application #
7228175
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAG1)
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2006-04-01
Budget End
2007-03-31
Support Year
21
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$238,824
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
National Bureau of Economic Research
Department
Type
DUNS #
054552435
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02138

  Publications

Cimas, M; Ayala, A; Sanz, B et al. (2018) Chronic musculoskeletal pain in European older adults: Cross-national and gender differences. Eur J Pain 22:333-345
Dobkin, Carlos; Finkelstein, Amy; Kluender, Raymond et al. (2018) Myth and Measurement - The Case of Medical Bankruptcies. N Engl J Med 378:1076-1078
Schwartz, Ella; Khalaila, Rabia; Litwin, Howard (2018) Contact frequency and cognitive health among older adults in Israel. Aging Ment Health :1-9
Sand, Gregor; Gruber, Stefan (2018) Differences in Subjective Well-being Between Older Migrants and Natives in Europe. J Immigr Minor Health 20:83-90
Reus-Pons, Matias; Mulder, Clara H; Kibele, Eva U B et al. (2018) Differences in the health transition patterns of migrants and non-migrants aged 50 and older in southern and western Europe (2004-2015). BMC Med 16:57
Henseke, Golo (2018) Good jobs, good pay, better health? The effects of job quality on health among older European workers. Eur J Health Econ 19:59-73
Dobkin, Carlos; Finkelstein, Amy; Kluender, Raymond et al. (2018) The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions. Am Econ Rev 108:308-52
Turley, Patrick; Walters, Raymond K; Maghzian, Omeed et al. (2018) Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG. Nat Genet 50:229-237
Rokicki, Slawa; Cohen, Jessica; Fink, Günther et al. (2018) Inference With Difference-in-Differences With a Small Number of Groups: A Review, Simulation Study, and Empirical Application Using SHARE Data. Med Care 56:97-105
Foverskov, Else; Glymour, M Maria; Mortensen, Erik L et al. (2018) Education and Cognitive Aging: Accounting for Selection and Confounding in Linkage of Data From the Danish Registry and Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Am J Epidemiol 187:2423-2430

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