Integrated Lifecycle Approach to the Development of Health & Other Capabilities

描述(由申请人提供)：本项目的目标是分析家庭和学校教育对健康发展的影响，以及在几代人内和世代之间促进健康的其他能力的形成。我们的发展方针侧重于从早年开始就促进健康的因素，而不是疾病的治疗及其成本，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大量具有生命周期信息的大规模数据集，以调查健康差距的来源，以及社会政策可以影响的机制：学校教育和儿童的家庭环境。我们将调查健康和包括教育在内的社会经济地位之间的同期经验关联的因果基础，以及生命周期所有阶段的健康与生命周期环境和投资之间的关联。我们将在以前工作的基础上，研究能力--认知、人格特征和健康--如何决定各种结果。我们将在我们之前关于能力形成技术的研究的基础上，分析父母对多兄弟姐妹家庭的投资，以及在替代市场环境下的父母选择。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-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，以及产生这些关系的机制的理解。它将提出政策建议，促进促进教育和健康的能力。我们将使用实验和非实验数据来开发生产健康和其他能力的动态模型。我们将开发必要的计量工具，以确定能力对不同结果的影响，以及父母投资和学校对整个生命周期能力形成的影响。我们将开发技术，将来自生命周期不同部分的数据与可比的测量框架汇集在一起，以便在任何单一数据集中缺乏生命周期信息的情况下分析生命周期结果。为了补充我们对能力形成的动态及其对健康的影响的分析，我们将对多代恒河猴的健康的生命周期发展进行平行分析。恒河猴在许多重要方面与人类相似。他们拥有我们95%的基因，而且他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、经过实验操作的数据，我们将使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：该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。我们调查可能指导公共政策的促进健康的因果渠道。

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.