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Predicting Health Behaviors with Economic Preferences and Perceived Control

Year: 2012
Type: report
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.
Institution: Federal Reserve
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2117989959
Cites: 11
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