Working paper
The knowledgeable patient: investigating the role of lay knowledge in the production of health
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In this paper, we analyse the role of knowledge in an individual's production of health. We investigate the importance of various factors which potentially influence an individual's decision to seek health related knowledge, and then estimate what impact such knowledge has on individual health. Using a cross-sectional dataset of middle-aged and old UK residents, we estimate a bivariate probit model which accounts for the possible endogeneity of knowledge in the health production function. We ...
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- Publication status:
- Not published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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Economic and Social Research Council
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- Series:
- The Oxford Institute of Ageing Working Papers Series
- Place of publication:
- http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers.html
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:1949
- Deposit date:
- 2008-05-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Karlsson, M
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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