incorporates both addiction and social interactions and show that, under certain conditions, social interactions reinforce the … effects of addiction. I also show how the dynamics introduced by addiction can solve the pernicious problem of identifying the …

incorporates both addiction and social interactions and show that, under certain conditions, social interactions reinforce the … effects of addiction. I also show how the dynamics introduced by addiction can solve the pernicious problem of identifying the …

incorporates both addiction and social interactions and show that, under certain conditions, social interactions reinforce the … effects of addiction. I also show how the dynamics introduced by addiction can solve the pernicious problem of identifying the …

community in which individuals are heterogenous with respect to the experience of chronic pain and susceptibility to addiction …). In the second period they consider whether to continue non-medical opioid use to feed an addiction. Non-medical opioid … opioid epidemic is conceptualized as the transition from an equilibrium at which opioid use is low and addiction is highly …

This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals …

addiction. In contrast to prior research, we allow individuals to make their consumption decisions simultaneous with savings and … labor supply. When addictive goods have a stronger habit formation effect (an addiction effect'), individuals choose to save … less due to the anticipated adverse health consequences of addiction (a detrimental health effect'). This is particularly …

addiction. In contrast to prior research, we allow individuals to make their consumption decisions simultaneous with savings and … labor supply. When addictive goods have a stronger habit formation effect (an addiction effect'), individuals choose to save … less due to the anticipated adverse health consequences of addiction (a detrimental health effect'). This is particularly …

This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals …