The Demand for Health

Ronald Anderson:
A ground breaking work which has produced a model that is theoretically sound, intuitively appealing, and yields significantly testable implications.

J. D. Pole:
An elegant study in the tradition of Becker, using micro-economic methods to explore an area of non firm capital formation, and then ingeniously exploiting survey data to test some interesting theoretical propositions.

John Mullahy, University of Wisconsin:
A pathbreaking work on the demand for health, the production of health, and health capital.

Victor Fuchs, Stanford University:
The Demand for Health quickly had a major impact on health economics and has continued to inspire streams of research ever since.

Arleen A. Leibowitz, University of California, Los Angeles:
The Demand for Health revolutionized economists’ theorizing about health.

Robert Michael, University of Chicago:
Grossman’s The Demand for Health did for health economics what Gary Becker’s Human Capital did for labor economics by describing the broad, integrative power of human capital theory.

Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University:
A seminal work in health economics, which led to a major stream of literature dealing with the determinants of the health status of the population.

Gary S. Becker:
A most remarkable study, which ranks among the very most important and pioneering ones in health economics.