TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract 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.
VL  - 25
SN  - 978-1-78635-466-2, 978-1-78635-465-5/0731-2199
DO  - 10.1108/S0731-219920170000025002
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0731-219920170000025002
AU  - Carbone Jared C.
AU  - Kverndokk Snorre
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Individual Investments in Education and Health: Policy Responses and Interactions☆
T2  - Human Capital and Health Behavior
T3  - Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 33
EP  - 83
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -