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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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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Societies, Other & Subsidiary Companies
Department:
Kellogg College
Sub department:
Ageing Institute (OIA)
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Economic and Social Research Council More from this funder
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
Language:
English
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ora:1949
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2008-05-13

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