Subject Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART 1. Determinants of Health
6. 1. Prenatal Medical Care and Infant Mortality 15
7. 2. The Behavior of Mothers as Inputs to Child Health: The Determinants of Birth Weight, Gestation, and Rate of Fetal Growth 53
8. 3. Time Preference and Health: An Exploratory Study 93
9. 4. Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status 121
10. PART 2. Consequences of I11 Health
11. 5. The Status of Health in Demand Estimation; or, Beyond Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor 143
12. 6. Physical Disabilities and Post-secondary Educational Choices 185
13. 7. Employment, Earnings, and Psychiatric Diagnosis 203
14. 8. Children’s Health Problems: Implications for Parental Labor Supply and Earnings 221
15. PART 3. Health and Public Policy
16. 9. The Choice of Health Policies with Heterogeneous Populations 255
17. 10. Medical Care, Medical Insurance, and Survival Probability: The True Cost of Living 299
18. List of Contributors 325
19. Author Index 327
20. Subject Index 330