کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
961824 929957 2012 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The utility of health and wealth
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The utility of health and wealth
چکیده انگلیسی
Tradeoffs between health and wealth are among the most important decisions individuals make, and are central to social and economic policy. Yet, only a few studies have investigated the utility of health and wealth empirically. This paper investigates this utility function both theoretically and empirically. We conduct detailed personal interviews with 180 cancer patients, and also obtain questionnaires from 132 diabetes patients. We find strong support for the utility function U(h, w) = h · log(w), where h denotes health and w denotes wealth.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 31, Issue 2, March 2012, Pages 379-392
نویسندگان
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