Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia.
Health Econ. 2021 Apr;30(4):915-920. doi: 10.1002/hec.4225. Epub 2021 Jan 27.
We study the link between health status and economic preferences using survey data from 22 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. We hypothesize that there is a relationship between poor health and the preferences that people hold, and therefore their choices and decisions. We find that individuals with a limiting health condition are more risk averse and less patient, and that this is true for physical and mental health conditions. The magnitudes of the health gap are approximately 60% and 70% of the gender gap in risk and time preferences, respectively. Importantly, the health gaps are large for males, females, young, old, school dropouts, degree holders, employed, nonemployed, rich, and poor. They also hold for countries with different levels of gross domestic product (GDP), inequality, social expenditure, and disease burden.
我们利用来自 22 个经济合作与发展组织（OECD）国家的调查数据研究了健康状况和经济偏好之间的联系。我们假设健康状况不佳与人们的偏好之间存在关系，因此也与他们的选择和决策有关。我们发现，有身体限制条件的个人更厌恶风险，也更缺乏耐心，而且身体和心理健康状况都是如此。健康差距的幅度大约分别为风险和时间偏好的性别差距的 60%和 70%。重要的是，男性、女性、年轻人、老年人、辍学者、学位持有者、就业者、非就业者、富人和穷人之间的健康差距都很大。这种差距在国内生产总值（GDP）水平、不平等程度、社会支出和疾病负担不同的国家也存在。
