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Image versus information : changing societal norms and optimal privacy

Ali, S. Nageeb; Bénabou, Roland - 2016

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

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The impact of group membership on cooperation and norm enforcement : evidence using random assignment to real social groups

Götte, Lorenz (contributor); Huffman, David (contributor); … - 2006

Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate...

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The economics of workaholism : we should not have worked on this paper

Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor); … - 2005

policy involves a more progressive tax system than in the absence of workaholism. -- addiction ; retirement ; labor supply …

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The intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence: evidence from administrative data

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin - 2020

to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and have a close proxy for addiction to illicit opioids. We find that, if at …

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Going after the addiction, not the addicted : the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal

Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro; Tavares, Ana - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal using the Synthetic Control Method. The applied econometric methodology compares Portuguese drug-related variables with the ones extracted from a convex combination of similar European countries. The results suggest that a...

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Rational addiction and time consistency : an empirical test

Piccoli, Luca; Tiezzi, Silvia - 2020

This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its … addiction equation cannot distinguish between time consistency and inconsistency in preferences. We show that an encompassing … general specification of the rational addiction model embeds the possibility of testing for time consistent versus time …

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The welfare implications of addictive substances : a longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users

Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017

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

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The downward spiral

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022

constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying …-college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction as well as to a deadly overdose. The structural model …

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Eggs when young, chicken when old : time consistency and addiction over the life cycle

Piccoli, Luca; Tiezzi, Silvia - 2023

longitudinal data from RLMS, estimating a quasi-hyperbolic discounting rational addiction model for young and adult smokers …

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