Moral Hazard Heterogeneity: Genes and Health Insurance Influence Smoking after a Health Shock

Biroli, Pietro; Zwyssig, Laura

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3803720

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“…Further, Biroli and Zwyssig (2021) use polygenic indices related to smoking to understand heterogeneity in morally hazardous behaviors: they find that individuals who suffer a health shock when uninsured are more likely to reduce smoking, but only if they have a low polygenic index for smoking.…”

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Gene-Environment Interplay in the Social Sciences

Pereira¹,

Biroli²,

Hinke³

et al. 2022

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Nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) jointly contribute to the formation and evolution of health and human capital over the life cycle. This complex interplay between genes and environment can be estimated and quantified using genetic information readily available in a growing number of social science data sets. To help the novice reader interested in understanding individual decision making, public policy, and inequality using genetic data, we introduce essential genetic terminology, review the literature in economics and social-science genetics---with a focus on the interplay between genes and environment---and discuss policy implications and future prospects of the use of genetic data in the social sciences and economics.

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Gene-Environment Interplay in the Social Sciences

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Biroli²,

Hinke³

et al. 2022

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“…Most of this literature focuses on education, wealth, and health, and uses polygenic scores for either educational attainment, smoking, or body mass index. Some of the most significant studies include Barcellos et al (2018Barcellos et al ( , 2021, Trejo et al (2018), Wedow et al (2018), Bierut et al (2018), Barth et al (2020), Breinholt andConley (2020), Papageorge and Thom (2020), Houmark et al (2020), Ronda et al (2020), Biroli andZwyssig (2021), and Bolyard and Savelyev (2021). For instance, Barcellos et al (2018) show that genes moderate the effect of education on health, whereby education-driven improvements in health (e.g., healthy body size) are larger for individuals with high genetic predisposition to obesity.…”

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