WHAT GOOD IS WEALTH WITHOUT HEALTH? THE EFFECT OF HEALTH ON THE MARGINAL UTILITY OF CONSUMPTION

We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and Ret...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Finkelstein, Amy, Luttmer, Erzo F. P., Notowidigdo, Matthew J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82667
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684