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Taxes, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction …

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Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

of smokers who recently failed to quit smoking. The latter finding is consistent with cue-triggered models of addiction …

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Caught in the Bulimic Trap? Persistence and State Dependence of Bulimia Among Young Women

Goeree, Michelle S.; Ham, John C.; Iorio, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

, together with support from the medical literature, provide evidence that bulimia should be considered an addiction. Our …

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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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Smoking, Income and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Smoking Bans

Brodeur, Abel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of local smoking bans on different out-comes using county and time variation over the last 20 years in the US. First, I find no evidence that local smoking bans in bars, restaurants and workplaces decrease the prevalence of smoking. The estimates are very...

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The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Slemrod, Joel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We argue that for some people addictive behavior may apply to a much more central aspect of economic life: working. Workaholism is subject to the same concerns about the individual as...

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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market

Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …

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