Arbeitspapier
Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services. Its increase in recent decades can be traced back to unhealthy habits acquired in the household. We investigate whether parental beliefs play a role by eliciting beliefs about the returns to a recommended-calorie diet and regular exercise using hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in health outcomes and the intergenerational transmission of obesity.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11336
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Household Behavior and Family Economics: Other
Health: General
Health Behavior
Health and Inequality
- Thema
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parental investments
health
beliefs
inequality
equality of opportunity
obesity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Biroli, Pietro
Boneva, Teodora
Raja, Akash
Rauh, Christopher
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Biroli, Pietro
- Boneva, Teodora
- Raja, Akash
- Rauh, Christopher
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2018
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