Essays in Health Economics: A Focus on the Built Environment

The dissertation investigates how individual behaviors and health outcomes interplay with surrounding built environments, in three essays. We conceptually focus on travel behaviors and accessibility. In the first essay, we hypothesize that urban sprawl increases requisite travel time which limits l...

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Main Author: Christian, Thomas James
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2010
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Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/econ_diss/61
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=econ_diss