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Background One underexamined factor in the study of lay views of socioeconomic health inequalities is occupation-related health. Examining health by occupational social class has a long history in the UK but has been comparatively overlooked in US public health literatures, where the relationship between health and work has attended more to hazard exposure. Methods Representative samples of the UK and US indicated the perceived and ideal lifespan of people working in “higher managerial/profes...

The Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) infers respondents’ inflation expectations from density forecasts. Using numeracy data and tests for coherence among 117,000 respondents to the SCE, I find that density forecasts suffer non-negligible reporting bias and selective nonresponse. A simple verbal question collected by the SCE suffers neither of these deficiencies and so has better properties to deliver an accurate snapshot of the population's inflation expectations than the headline measur...

To maximise the health of society within a limited budget, decision makers in public health systems need to decide which health treatments to fund and how best to support engagement by patients with treatments. Current practice is heavily influenced by rational choice theory. In this thesis we apply an alternative behavioural economics perspective to inform decisions on which treatments to fund and how to support engagement with services. Decisions on which treatments to fund are often infor...

This thesis addresses various food safety and food consumption challenges and investigates them from an economic perspective within three different, but related studies. Each study provides public authorities with valuable information that will assist them with the development and implementation of meaningful and targeted food policy interventions designed to positively influence consumer food related behaviours and choices. These studies further contribute to the literature by investiga...