Abstract:
:The concept of health human capital guides the statistical study of (1) health production functions, (2) derived demands for medical and behavioral health inputs, and (3) determinants of health and productivity outcomes. Health inputs are generally endogenous to health outcomes, and prices of health inputs are the most common instrumental variable for identifying estimates of the causal effects of health inputs. But when health input prices are modified by individual regional migration, the regional prices no longer satisfy the requirement of being independent of preferences and omitted variables. Then the difficulty of evaluating health program effects reinforces the need to design randomized regional treatments, in order to be able to evaluate without bias the consequences of critical health interventions, such as are needed today to deal with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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J Health Econjournal_title
Journal of health economicsauthors
Schultz TPdoi
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2004.04.002subject
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2004-07-01 00:00:00pages
637-41issue
4eissn
0167-6296issn
1879-1646pii
S0167-6296(04)00057-8journal_volume
23pub_type
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