Papageorge Nicholas W, Pauley Gwyn C, Cohen Mardge, Wilson Tracey E, Hamilton Barton H, Pollak Robert A
Economics at the Johns Hopkins University, an IZA research fellow, and an NBER faculty research fellow.
Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
J Hum Resour. 2021 Fall;56(4):997-1030. doi: 10.3368/jhr.56.4.1115-7543r5. Epub 2019 Nov 13.
We treat health as a form of human capital and hypothesize that women with more human capital face stronger incentives to make costly investments with future payoffs, such as avoiding abusive partners and reducing drug use. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the unanticipated introduction of an HIV treatment, HAART, which dramatically improved HIV+ women's health. We find that after the introduction of HAART HIV+ women who experienced increases in expected longevity exhibited a decrease in domestic violence of 15% and in drug use of 1520%. We rule out confounding via secular trends using a control group of healthier women.
我们将健康视为一种人力资本形式，并假设拥有更多人力资本的女性面临着更强的激励，促使她们进行具有未来回报的高成本投资，比如避免与虐待性伴侣交往以及减少吸毒行为。为了验证这一假设，我们利用了一种艾滋病治疗方法——高效抗逆转录病毒疗法（HAART）的意外引入，该疗法极大地改善了感染艾滋病毒女性的健康状况。我们发现，在引入HAART之后，预期寿命有所增加的感染艾滋病毒女性的家庭暴力发生率下降了15%，吸毒率下降了15%至20%。我们通过使用一组健康状况较好的女性作为对照组，排除了长期趋势带来的混淆因素。
