Economic and Psychological Origins of Health Capital Accumulation

健康资本积累的经济和心理根源

• 批准号: 1740951
• 负责人: Petr Savelyev
• 金额: $ 11.71万
• 依托单位: College of William and Mary
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1740951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Economic; Psychological; Origins; Health; Capital

The aim of this project is to estimate the effects of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills, and education on health behaviors, health-related lifestyles, health, and longevity. In addition, the PI's goal is to uncover the behavioral mechanisms behind the effects of skills and education on longevity. He uses mediation analysis to show that health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, and job risk are major mechanisms behind the estimated effects. Formal education is itself a major mediator and helps explain why early cognitive and socioemotional skills affect health and longevity. The project has both scientific and policy implications. It aims to demonstrate how college education and socioemotional skills acquired in early life affect long run health-related outcomes. The results will inform education policies such as student loans and grants for college education and social interventions that help children improve their socioemotional skills. It is expected that these social interventions improve health outcomes and decrease health inequality. The identification of causal effects is based on twin fixed effects and its generalizations and on identification from a structure. The PI leverages the fact that identical twins raised together share both genes and family background. The team will use new data on mortality that were collected for the Minnesota Twin Registry. Whether or not education has a causal effect on longevity is still an unresolved question since many results in the recent literature contradict each other. In addition, the PI investigates developmental origins of health behaviors and other health-related outcomes. Exploration of the mechanisms behind the effects of skill and education on longevity requires a more structural approach. The team estimates a system of recursive simultaneous equations that links skills to college education choice, college education to mediators, and mediators to longevity conditional on detailed background controls.

该项目的目的是评估认知技能、社会情感技能和教育对健康行为、健康相关生活方式、健康和长寿的影响。此外，PI 的目标是揭示技能和教育对长寿影响背后的行为机制。他利用中介分析表明，健康行为、生活方式、收入和工作风险是估计效果背后的主要机制。 正规教育本身就是一个主要的中介因素，有助于解释为什么早期认知和社会情感技能会影响健康和长寿。该项目具有科学和政策意义。 它旨在展示大学教育和早年获得的社会情感技能如何影响长期的健康相关结果。 研究结果将为教育政策提供信息，例如学生贷款和大学教育补助金以及帮助儿童提高社会情感技能的社会干预措施。 预计这些社会干预措施可以改善健康结果并减少健康不平等。因果效应的识别基于孪生固定效应及其概括以及结构的识别。 PI 利用了一起长大的同卵双胞胎共享基因和家庭背景的事实。该团队将使用为明尼苏达双胞胎登记处收集的新死亡率数据。 教育是否对长寿有因果影响仍然是一个悬而未决的问题，因为最近文献中的许多结果相互矛盾。此外，PI 还调查健康行为的发育起源和其他健康相关结果。探索技能和教育对长寿影响背后的机制需要采取更具结构性的方法。 该团队估计了一个递归联立方程系统，该系统将技能与大学教育选择、大学教育与中介因素以及以详细背景控制为条件的中介因素与长寿联系起来。