Integrated Lifecycle Approach to the Development of Health & Other Capabilities

该项目的目标是分析家庭和学校教育对健康发展的影响，以及促进代际健康的其他能力的形成。我们的发展方针侧重于促进健康的因素，从早年开始，而不是侧重于疾病的治疗及其费用，这是目前许多卫生政策的重点。 为了实现这一目标，我们建议开发和应用经济模型来分析具有生命周期信息的大量大规模数据集，以调查健康差异的来源以及社会政策可以影响的机制：儿童的学校教育和家庭环境。我们将研究健康与社会经济地位（包括教育）之间的同期经验关联的因果基础，以及生命周期各个阶段的健康与生命周期环境和投资之间的关联。 我们将在以前的工作基础上研究能力-认知，人格特质和健康-如何决定各种结果。 我们将建立和扩展我们以前的研究能力形成的技术，分析父母在多兄弟姐妹家庭的投资和父母在替代市场环境中的选择。 我们将研究决定健康状况和其他结果的能力，以及决定这些能力的生命周期和代际演变的因素。 这项研究将加深我们对教育与健康相关性的来源以及健康与社会经济地位之间的其他关系的理解，以及产生这些关系的机制。 它将提出促进教育和卫生能力的政策建议。 我们将使用实验和非实验数据来开发健康和其他能力生产的动态模型。我们将开发所需的计量经济学工具，以确定能力对不同结果的影响，以及父母投资和学校对生命周期中能力形成的影响。 我们将开发技术，从生命周期的不同部分的可比测量框架池数据，分析生命周期的结果在生命周期信息的情况下，从任何单一的数据集。为了补充我们对能力形成的动态分析及其对健康的影响，我们将对多代恒河猴的生命周期健康发展进行平行分析。恒河猴在许多重要方面与人类相似。它们拥有我们95%的基因，它们有复杂的社会结构。 与NICHD的Stephen Suomi合作，我们可以获得关于多代人的健康，基因，环境和个性特征的丰富的实验操作数据，我们将用我们的能力表达和能力形成的动态模型进行分析。 公共卫生相关性：本项目调查健康的生命周期和代际决定因素以及产生这些决定因素的生命周期因素。 我们调查促进健康的因果渠道，可以指导公共政策。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to analyze the effects of family and schooling on the development of health and the formation of other capabilities that promote health within and across generations. Our developmental approach focuses on factors that promote health, beginning in the early years, rather than on cures for diseases and their costs, the current focus of much health policy. To achieve this goal, we propose to develop and apply economic models to analyze numerous large- scale data sets with life-cycle information to investigate the sources of health disparities, and the mechanisms that social policy can influence: schooling and the family environments of children. We will investigate the causal foundations of the contemporaneous empirical association between health and socioeconomic status, including education, and the association between health at all stages of the life cycle and life-cycle environments and investments. We will build on our previous work to study how capabilities - cognition, personality traits, and health - determine a variety of outcomes. We will build on and extend our prior research on the technology of capability formation, analyzing parental investments in multi-sibling families and parental choices in alternative market settings. We will study the capabilities that determine health conditions and other outcomes, and the factors that determine the life-cycle and intergenerational evolution of these capabilities. This research will deepen our understanding of the sources of the education-health correlation and of other relationships between health and socioeconomic status, and the mechanisms that produce these relationships. It will suggest policies that foster the capabilities that promote education and health. We will use both experimental and nonexperimental data to develop dynamic models for the production of health and other capabilities. We will develop the econometric tools needed to identify the effects of capabilities on diverse outcomes and the effects of parental investment and schools on the formation of capabilities over the life cycle. We will develop techniques to pool data with comparable measurement frameworks from different segments of the life cycle to analyze life-cycle outcomes in the absence of life-cycle information from any single data set. To supplement our analysis of the dynamics of capability formation, and its implications for health, we will conduct parallel analyses on the life-cycle development of health for multiple generations of rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monkeys resemble humans in many important aspects. They share 95% of our genes and they have complex social structures. Working with Stephen Suomi at NICHD, we have access to rich, experimentally manipulated data on health, genes, environments, and personality traits over multiple generations, that we will analyze with our dynamic models of capability expression and capability formation. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project investigates life-cycle and intergenerational determinants of health and the life-cycle factors that produce these determinants. We investigate causal channels for promoting health that may guide public policy.