Description: Acknowledgments Introduction by Victor R. Fuchs Part One - Determinants of Health 1. Prenatal Medical Care and Infant Mortality Jeffrey E. Harris, M.D. 2. The Behavior of Mothers as Inputs to Child Health: The Determinants of Birth Weight, Gestation, and Rate of Fetal Growth Mark R. Rosenzweig and T. Paul Schultz 3. Time Preference and Health: An Exploratory Study Victor R. Fuchs 4. Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status Paul Taubman and Sherwin Rosen Part Two - Consequences of Ill Health 5. The Status of Health in Demand Estimation; or, Beyond Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor Willard G. Manning, Jr., Joseph P. Newhouse, and John E. Ware, Jr. 6. Physical Disabilities and Post-secondary Educational Choices Robert A. Shakotko and Michael Grossman 7. Employment, Earnings, and Psychiatric Diagnosis Lee and Alexandra Benham 8. Children's Health Problems: Implications for Parental Labor Supply and Earnings David S. Salkever Part Three - Health and Public Policy 9. The Choice of Health Policies with Heterogeneous Populations Donald S. Shapart and Richard J. Zeckhauser 10. Medical Care, Medical Insurance, and Survival Probability: The True Cost of Living Theodore C. Bergstrom List of Contributors Author Index Subject Index

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