A Theory of Socio-economic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
提出一个生命周期模型，纳入医疗以外的多种行为，解释社会经济地位与健康之间的大部分差异，并通过比较动态分析得出新预测，对健康生产研究有改进框架。
Motivated by the observation that medical care explains only a relatively small part of the SES-health gradient, we present a life-cycle model that incorporates several additional behaviours that potentially explain (jointly) a large part of observed disparities. As a result, the model provides not only a conceptual framework for the SES-health gradient but more generally an improved framework for the production of health. We derive novel predictions from the theory by performing comparative dynamic analyses. More generally, our comparative dynamic method can be applied to models of similar form, e.g., human capital, health deficits, firm investment, to name a few.