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

    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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