Predicting Health Behaviors with Economic Preferences and Perceived Control

We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control--a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature--is a stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors tha...

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Published in:Policy File 2012
Main Authors: Conell-Price, Lynn, Jamison, Julian
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Economic policy
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Health care policy
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Summary:We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control--a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature--is a stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors than economic preferences.