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Michael Grossman
Researcher at The Graduate Center, CUNY
Publications - 283
Citations - 23680
Michael Grossman is an academic researcher from The Graduate Center, CUNY. The author has contributed to research in topics: Consumption (economics) & Infant mortality. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 279 publications receiving 22571 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Grossman include Queen's University & Institute for the Study of Labor.
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On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health
TL;DR: A model of the demand for the commodity "good health" is constructed and it is shown that the shadow price rises with age if the rate of depreciation on the stock of health rises over the life cycle and falls with education if more educated people are more efficient producers of health.
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An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the factors that may be responsible for the rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity in the United States and found that these factors have the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend.
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The Human Capital Model
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed treatment of the human capital model of the demand for health which was originally developed in 1972 is discussed, and theoretical extensions of the model are reviewed, as well as empirical research that tests the predictions and studies causality between years of formal schooling completed and good health is surveyed.
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An economic analysis of adult obesity: results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the factors that may be responsible for the 50% increase in the number of obese adults in the US since the late 1970s and found that these variables have the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend.