Working Paper
Predicting health behaviors with economic preferences and perceived control
Abstract: We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control ? a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature ? is a stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors than economic preferences.
Keywords: Health; Human behavior;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Part of Series: Working Papers
Publication Date: 2012
Number: 12-16