Imperial College London
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DrJoachimMarti

Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Global Health Innovation

Honorary Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 3312 5630j.marti Website

 
 
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1021Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing (QEQM)St Mary's Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Richards:2014:10.1017/S1744133114000152,
author = {Richards, MR and Marti, J},
doi = {10.1017/S1744133114000152},
journal = {Health Econ Policy Law},
pages = {343--357},
title = {Heterogeneity in the smoking response to health shocks by out-of-pocket spending risk.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744133114000152},
volume = {9},
year = {2014}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - An existing literature demonstrates that adverse changes to health can lead to improvements in health behaviors. Although the exact explanations for these empirical findings are debated, some posit that individuals learn about their true health risks through health shocks. Updated health risk information can then induce changes in health behaviors. While we follow a learning framework, we argue that past work has neglected the role of health insurance and medically related financial risk within this decision making context. Using longitudinal data from 11 European countries, we investigate the impact of a new cardiovascular (CV) health shock on smoking decisions among older adults and examine whether personal exposure to medical spending risk influences the smoking response. We then explore two potential mechanisms for this link: larger updates to health risk beliefs and higher medical expenditures to incentivize behavior change. We find that CV shocks impact the propensity to smoke, with relatively more impact among individuals with high financial risk exposure to medical spending. We also see larger increases in out-of-pocket expenditures following a shock for this group--consistent with the latter mechanism for behavior change.
AU  - Richards,MR
AU  - Marti,J
DO  - 10.1017/S1744133114000152
EP  - 357
PY  - 2014///
SP  - 343
TI  - Heterogeneity in the smoking response to health shocks by out-of-pocket spending risk.
T2  - Health Econ Policy Law
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744133114000152
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24801223
VL  - 9
ER  -
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