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Health and (Other) Asset Holdings

Hugonnier, Julien  
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Pelgrin, Florian
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St-Amour, Pascal
2013
Review of Economic Studies

Despite clear evidence of correlations between financial and medical statuses and decisions, most models treat financial and health-related choices separately. This article bridges this gap by proposing a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determination of optimal consumption, portfolio holdings, health investment, and health insurance. We solve for the optimal rules in closed form and capitalize on this tractability to gain a better understanding of the conditions under which separation between financial and health-related decisions is sensible, and of the pathways through which wealth and health determine allocations, welfare and other variables of interest such as expected longevity or the value of health. Furthermore we show that the model is consistent with the observed patterns of individual allocations and provide realistic estimates of the parameters that confirm the relevance of all the main characteristics of the model.

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research article
DOI
10.1093/restud/rds033
Web of Science ID

WOS:000318314500009

Author(s)
Hugonnier, Julien  
Pelgrin, Florian
St-Amour, Pascal
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Oxford Univ Press

Published in
Review of Economic Studies
Volume

80

Issue

2

Start page

663

End page

710

Subjects

Consumption

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Health Expenditures and Insurance

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Mortality and Morbidity Risks

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Portfolio

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Values of Life and of Health

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G11

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I12

URL

SSRN research paper

https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1417364
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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SFI-JH  
Available on Infoscience
October 1, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/95120
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