Predicting health behaviors with economic preferences and perceived control

Lynn Conell-Price and Julian Jamison

No 12-16, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health; Human behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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