9 January 2019
Research on family health behaviors by Torben Heien Nielsen one of the most important research results in 2018
The research, nominated by professor Emely Oster, Brown University, in Quartz, finds that having a sick family member significantly increases a person’s investments in their own health.
The authors exploit a novel data source to look at how our choices about health care are influenced by what is happening around us—with our family, and even our co-workers. It challenges our standard notion of how people think about their own health behavior choices.