Erschienen in:CESR-Schaeffer Working Paper ; No. 2022_007
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1 Online-Ressource (23 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.4283278
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments November 22, 2022 erstellt
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This chapter will explore what economic theory can offer in terms of improving our understanding of the potential causes of health inequalities over the life course. We use the model by Galama and Van Kippersluis (2019), which is based on the seminal health-capital theory of Grossman (1972), to discuss important insights relevant for health inequality research. We additionally discuss some of the most important sources of critique of the model and sketch directions of how the theory could be extended to do justice to the recent empirical literature refuting some of the theoretical assumptions