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The family as the health producer--when spouses act strategically.

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Author

  • Kristian Bolin
  • Lena Jacobson
  • Björn Lindgren

Summary, in English

The Grossman model has been extended recently in order to take account of the fact that most people lead their lives in a family--using frameworks in which family members, respectively, (a) have common preferences and (b) are Nash-bargainers. These models, however, do not consider individual incentives for behaving strategically. In the model presented in this paper, spouses interact strategically both in the production of own health and in the production of health of other family members. We analyse, inter alia, the impact on the distribution of health of changes in family policies, such as child allowance and custody rules.

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

475-495

Publication/Series

Journal of Health Economics

Volume

21

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Keywords

  • Investments : statistics & numerical data
  • Investments : economics
  • Human
  • Health Services Needs and Demand : statistics & numerical data
  • Health Services Needs and Demand : economics
  • Health Behavior
  • Female
  • Family Health
  • Efficiency
  • Divorce : economics
  • Decision Making
  • Child
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Child Welfare : economics
  • Male
  • Models
  • Econometric
  • Patient Acceptance of Health Care : statistics & numerical data
  • Spouses : psychology
  • Adult

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1879-1646