Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and other drugs. We find that … being a PK significantly reduces alcohol use. This effect comes exclusively from a reduction in the probability of any … alcohol use and this increased abstinence among children of the clergy persists into adulthood. These results are consistent …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … measures. They include: share of smokers on a daily/regular basis; alcohol consumption (per-capita liters per year); share of …

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to … changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover …, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate …

alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological … effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by expectations, as we compare behaviors of three groups of subjects …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but …

Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol related causes and among working … Anti-Alcohol Campaign. We use archival sources to build a new oblast-year data set spanning 1970-2000 and find that: (1 …) The campaign was associated with substantially fewer campaign year deaths, (2) Oblasts with larger reductions in alcohol …