On adaptation and the demand for health

Jon Gjerde, Sverre Grepperud and Snorre Kverndokk

Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 37, issue 11, 1283-1301

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impacts of adaptation to failing health. This is done by integrating adaptation processes in a Grossman type of pure consumption model. Model simulations show that adaptation affects the health variables by lowering the incentives to invest in health, as well as smoothing the optimal health stock path over the life cycle. Whether or not the risk of mortality is an object of choice has important effects when studying adaptation, as well as for the joint development of the health variables.

Date: 2005
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