Social Interactions

Durlauf, Steven N.; Ioannides, Yannis M.

doi:10.1146/annurev.economics.050708.143312

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“…We include measures for economic resources, risk preferences, access to health facilities, social capital, marital status, number of children in the household, religiosity, and the subjective health status. Furthermore, we control for the education and knowledge background in the entire microfinance network and in the direct peer group to take potential contextual peer effects into consideration [19,34]. These have been shown to be of importance for health behaviors in different other settings [23].…”

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The health knowledge mechanism: evidence on the link between education and health lifestyle in the Philippines

Hoffmann

Lutz

2018

Eur J Health Econ

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Studies have found substantial differences in health-related behavior and health care usage between educational groups, which may explain part of the well-documented educational gradient in health. The allocative efficiency hypothesis offers a behavioral explanation for these reported differences. According to this theory, the educated possess more health knowledge and information, allowing them to make better health choices. We perform a mediation analysis to study this mechanism using original survey data from the Philippines, a lower-middle-income country. As an extension of previous empirical research, we construct a comprehensive index that captures different dimensions of health knowledge. Using generalized propensity scores, we find strong support for the allocative efficiency argument. Schooling is significantly associated with health knowledge levels, which explain up to 69% of the education effect on health lifestyle. This corresponds to twice the mediation strength of economic resources, suggesting an important role of this factor in explaining education effects on health decisions.

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The health knowledge mechanism: evidence on the link between education and health lifestyle in the Philippines

Hoffmann

Lutz

2018

Eur J Health Econ

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“…See surveys by Blume and Durlauf (2001), Brock and Durlauf (2001b) and Durlauf and Ioannides (2010) for overviews of these and other theoretical features of these models as well as the bibliographies of these papers for specific theoretical contributions. choices such that (3) is consistent with this joint probability measure.…”

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“…See Durlauf and Ioannides (2010) for some assessment of its information content with respect to social interactions.…”

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Identification of Social Interactions

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Handbook of Social Economics

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While interest in social determinants of individual behavior has led to a rich theoretical literature and many efforts to measure these influences, a mature "social econometrics" has yet to emerge. This chapter provides a critical overview of the identification of social interactions. We consider linear and discrete choice models as well as social networks structures. We also consider experimental and quasi-experimental methods. In addition to describing the state of the identification literature, we indicate areas where additional research is especially needed and suggest some directions that appear to be especially promising. KeywordsSocial interactions, social networks, identification JEL Classification C21, C23, C31, C35, C72, Z13 CommentsPrepared for the Handbook of Social Economics, J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, and M. Jackson, eds. We thank Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Jane Cooley, James Heckman, Charles Manski and Salvador Navarro for many conversations on the subject of this chapter. Financial support has been supplied to Blume by NSF grant CCF-0910940 and WWTF Grant "Die Evolution von Normen and Konventionen in der

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“…6 See surveys by Blume and Durlauf (2001), Brock and Durlauf (2001b) and Durlauf and Ioannides (2010) for overviews of these and other theoretical features of these models as well as the bibliographies of these papers for specific theoretical contributions. choices such that (3) is consistent with this joint probability measure.…”

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