An analysis of mammography decisions with a focus on educational differences

Anikó Bíró

Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers from HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York

Abstract: I analyze the decisions on undertaking breast screening by women aged 50-64 in the UK. I provide estimation results on the discounting of the potential future benefits of screening. I also analyze the education di¤erences in mammography decisions,and examine the underlying mechanism how education in‡uences breast screening attendance. The reduced form estimation results suggest that the observed education gradient is mainly due to di¤erences in health behaviors and health care attitudes.Using the institutional settings of the UK, I estimate a structural model, which reveals that although there are di¤erences in the disutility of breast screening along the education level, there is no such di¤erence in the estimated discount factor. I also …nd some evidence that women are forward looking when deciding on mammography attendance,and might even overestimate the potential bene…ts of mammography.

Keywords: mammography; health discount rate; education gradient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 I11 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-07
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