Browsing by Author "Bolin, Kristian"
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CAPABILITY, HEALTH, AND THE LABOUR MARKET – THE RETIREMENT DECISION
Bolin, Kristian; Lood, Qarin (University of Gothenburg, 2021-09)The time of retirement is analyzed in a theoretical framework taking capability and health into account. Capability if formalized as a stock characteristic which determines the attained amounts of a composite good which ... -
Child Human Capital – The Importance of Parenting Style
Bolin, Kristian; Caputo, Michael R. (2019-08)Investments in the human capital of children during their upbringing determine the opportunities available in adulthood. Recognizing that the parent-child interaction plays a significant role in the accumulation of child ... -
Consumption and Investment Demand when Health Evolves Stochastically
Bolin, Kristian; Caputo, Michael R. (2017-10)The health capital model of Grossman (1972) is extended to account for uncertainty in the rate at which a stock of health depreciates. Two versions of the model are contemplated, one with a fully functioning financial ... -
Individual technologies for health - the implications of distinguishing between the ability to produce health investments and the capacity to benefit from those investments
Bolin, Kristian; Liljas, Bengt; Lindgren, Björn (2014-03)People differ in their ability to produce health investments and in their capacity to benefit from such efforts. In this paper, we assume (1) that the individual’s health-investment production function exhibits diminishing ... -
Non-Life-Threatening Ailments and Rational Patience
Bolin, Kristian; Caputo, Michael R. (2019-08)The time at which a rational patient might choose an elective medical procedure for a non-life-threatening ailment is contemplated. The resulting model is purposely uncomplicated but general, and accounts for several basic ... -
Non-monotonic health behaviours - implications for individual health-related behaviour in a demand-for-health framework
Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn (2014-03)A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance, may be beneficial to one’s health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities. We develop a ... -
Optimal Investment in Health when Lifetime is Stochastic, or, Rational Agents do not Often Follow Health Agency Recommendations
Bolin, Kristian; Caputo, Michael R. (2018-08)A health-capital model is contemplated which accounts for the consumption of many goods, a stock of health and investment in it, as well as an agent’s random lifetime and accumulation of wealth. It is shown that if an ... -
Parental Investments in Child Health – the importance of paternalistic altruism, child egoism and short-sightedness
Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn (2015-12)Parent and child interaction is an important determinant of child health. Typically, parents are more forward-looking than their children and, hence, care about investments in human capital to a larger extent. In this paper ... -
Specification of the Health Production Function and its Behavioral Implications
Bolin, Kristian; Caputo, Mikael R. (University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)The health production function of the canonical health-capital model is generalized to allow the state of health to affect the total and marginal products of health investment. If the total and marginal products of health ... -
The cost-effectiveness of biological therapy cycles in the management of Crohn’s disease
Bolin, Kristian; Hertervig, Erik; Louis, Edouard (University of Gothenburg, 2018-11)Objectives: to examine the cost-effectiveness of continued treatment for patients with moderate-severe Crohn’s disease in clinical remission, with a combination of anti-TNFα (infliximab) and immunosuppressant therapy ...