发展经济学和劳动经济学workshop
讲座时间:5月13日(星期三)下午2:00-3:30
讲座地点:国家发展研究院小教室
主讲人:
Kathleen McGarry,Professor of Economics, UCLA
Heterogeneity in State-Dependent Utility: Evidence from Strategic Surveys
Jeffrey R. Brown, Gopi Shah Goda and Kathleen McGarry
A standard result of life-cycle models under uncertainty is that optimizing individuals will
equate the expected marginal utility of consumption across various states of the world. A small empirical
literature has suggested that the marginal utility of consumption may be lower in less healthy states. This
paper uses a novel survey-based measure to document significant heterogeneity in health-state
dependence across the population that is largely orthogonal to standard demographic controls. We further
show evidence of differences in state-dependence between cognitive and physical impairments, as well as
differences related to the stage of life at which the health shock occurs.