Production of and the demand for coronary health.
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Title
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Production of and the demand for coronary health.
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Identifier
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AAI9108089
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identifier
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9108089
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Creator
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Cooper, Philip F.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Michael Grossman
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Date
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1990
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Economics, General | Health Sciences, Public Health
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Abstract
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This study utilizes data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the follow-up to this survey, which tracked original participants approximately ten years after the initial survey. With this data, I attempted to study the reported link between moderate alcohol consumption and lower mortality due to coronary heart disease. This well documented relationship, as of yet, has no well accepted biological explanation. This has led researchers to suggest that some confounding variable which is related to both moderate alcohol consumption and lower mortality due to coronary heart disease is responsible for the observed association.;Other researchers question the direction of causality in the relationship. While most reports suggest that moderate alcohol consumption leads to lower mortality due to coronary heart disease, some health scientists have suggested that individuals who have poor health may abstain from alcoholic beverage consumption so as not to aggravate their health condition. This would lead to a possible over estimation of moderate alcohol consumption's impact on mortality due to coronary heart disease.;To investigate these questions, a two stage recursive model is fit to estimate the impact of moderate alcohol consumption and number of cigarettes smoked on mortality outcomes. In the first stage, demand equations are estimated for the inputs that will be employed in the second stage--the mortality production function.;Using the predicted estimates of the inputs allows for constraining the direction of causality to run from alcohol consumption to mortality outcomes. In this manner, the moderate alcohol consumption--lower mortality due to heart disease relationship is tested.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
