typically assumed ad-hoc in customer market and brand switching cost models. A central result of the paper is that deep habits …

side of the market highlights how barriers to entry, such as regulation and high traditional marketing costs, sustained a …

Reservations. The regime change represents a unique opportunity to quantify brand loyalty because it almost doubled the price of … premium-brand cigarettes, while Native brands were still untaxed. We use data from two different sources--the New York State … three-quarters remained brand loyal …

suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …

In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials … on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …

We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of … advertising. Heterogeneity in brand preferences explains 40 percent of geographic variation in market shares. These preferences … years in the past still exerting a significant effect on current consumption. Counterfactuals suggest that brand preferences …

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …

and on the utilization of medical services among children of natives and children of immigrants. Children of immigrants … Medicaid regulations, I find that recent expansions of eligibility had negligible effects on Medicaid coverage among children … of immigrants, although coverage rose among children of the native born. Among immigrants in border states, eligibility …

The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is little past evidence that extending eligibility for public … of the Medicaid program to low income children. We find that these expansions roughly doubled the fraction of children …

In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular … has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …