Title

Family Behavior: Implications for Health Benefits Transfer from Adults to Children

Authors

Authors

M. Dickie;S. Gerking

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Environ. Resour. Econ.

Keywords

Benefit transfer; Children's health; Altruism; Family behavior; WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY; ALTRUISM; PARENTS; RISKS; Economics; Environmental Studies

Abstract

An approach to transfer adult health benefit estimates to children is developed from a consensus model of family behavior in which parents employ protective goods to reduce a health risk that they and their children face. The model is estimated using national survey data on parents' perceptions of skin cancer risks and their actual use of sun protection products in order to test the equilibrium condition that the parent's marginal rate of substitution between equal percentage reductions in her child's and her own risk equates to unity. Empirical results are consistent with this prediction. This finding suggests that the consensus model provides a useful basis to transfer adult health benefit estimates to children.

Journal Title

Environmental & Resource Economics

Volume

43

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

31

Last Page

43

WOS Identifier

WOS:000265940300003

ISSN

0924-6460

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