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OBESITY AND MORAL HAZARD IN DEMAND FOR VISITS TO PHYSICIANS
Author(s) -
GUSTAVSEN GEIR WAEHLER,
NAYGA RODOLFO M.,
WU XIMING
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2010.00226.x
Subject(s) - moral hazard , overweight , body mass index , hazard ratio , obesity , hazard , medicine , sample (material) , environmental health , demography , psychology , actuarial science , economics , sociology , confidence interval , incentive , biology , microeconomics , ecology , chemistry , chromatography
In this article, we use count data regression with sample selection to analyze the effects and degree of moral hazard in demand for visits to physicians among groups of individuals with similar body mass index (BMI). Our results suggest that the effect of moral hazard on the demand for visits to doctors is increasing in BMI for men and for overweight and obese women. Moral hazard is highest among overweight men. ( JEL I11, C25)