Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction and Acknowledgments xv
5. PART 1. The Demand for Health: Theoretical Underpinnings and Empirical Results
6. Introduction to Part 1 2
7. 1. On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health 6
8. 2. The Human Capital Model 42
9. Afterword to Part 1 111
10. PART 2. The Relationship between Health and Schooling
11. Introduction to Part 2 122
12. 3. The Correlation between Health and Schooling 128
13. 4. An Exploration of the Dynamic Relationship between Health and Cognitive Development in Adolescence 190
14. 5. Parental Education and Child Health 212
15. 6. Women’s Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? 249
16. Afterword to Part 2 286
17. PART 3. Determinants of Infant Health with Special Emphasis on Public Policies and Programs
18. Introduction to Part 3 296
19. 7. Variations in Infant Mortality Rates among Counties of the United States 305
20. 8. Determinants of Neonatal Mortality Rates in the United States 331
21. 9. Birth Outcome Production Functions in the United States 357
22. 10. Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City 377
23. 11. The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes 402
24. Afterword to Part 3 450
25. PART 4. The Economics of Unhealthy Behaviors
26. Introduction to Part 4 468
27. 12. The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking 482
28. 13. Beer Taxes, the Legal Drinking Age, and Youth Motor Vehicle Fatalities 509
29. 14. Effects of Alcoholic Beverage Prices and Legal Drinking Ages on Youth Alcohol 534
30. 15. Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption 562
31. 16. An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction 570
32. 17. An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction 604
33. 18. The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults 620
34. 19. An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity 666
35. 20. Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity 694
36. 21. Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths 716
37. Afterword to Part 4 752
38. Reflections 772
39. Index 779