Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35684 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3925
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the marginal utility of consumption. Our basic conclusion is that while none of these approaches is a panacea, many offer the potential to shed important insights on the nature of health state dependence.
Subjects: 
State dependence
health
insurance
marginal utility
JEL: 
D12
I1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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