dc.contributor.advisor | Cutler, David M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Friedman, Abigail Sarah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-06T14:40:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-06-06 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Friedman, Abigail Sarah. 2014. Essays in Health Economics: Understanding Risky Health Behaviors. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11429 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12269847 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation presents three papers applying health economics to the study of risky behaviors. The first uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between adverse events and risky behaviors among adolescents. Substance use responses to experiencing either of two adverse events--violent crime victimization or death of a non-family member one felt close to--explain 6.7 percent of first cigarette use, and 14.3 percent of first use of illegal drugs other than marijuana. Analyses of exercise, a positive coping mechanism, find shock-responses consistent with a coping-response, but not with rational, time-inconsistent, or non-rational drivers considered here. I conclude that distressing events lead to risky behaviors, with a coping response contributing to this effect. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.subject | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject | Public health | en_US |
dc.subject | Public policy | en_US |
dc.subject | Behavioral Economics | en_US |
dc.subject | Electronic Cigarettes | en_US |
dc.subject | Health economics | en_US |
dc.subject | Mental Health | en_US |
dc.subject | Risky Behavior | en_US |
dc.subject | Smoking | en_US |
dc.title | Essays in Health Economics: Understanding Risky Health Behaviors | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Friedman, Abigail Sarah | |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-06T14:40:58Z | |
thesis.degree.date | 2014 | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | Health Policy | en_US |
thesis.degree.grantor | Harvard University | en_US |
thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en_US |
thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Cutler, David | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Frank, Richard | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Goldin, Claudia | en_US |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Friedman, Abigail Sarah | |