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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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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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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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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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Social interactions in the labor market

Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011

We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...

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Social interactions in demand

Grodner, Andrew (contributor); … - 2008

We examine theoretically demand in a two-good economy where the demand of one good is influenced by either a spillover effect in the form of an externality from other consumers' choices and or a conformity effect representing a need for making similar choices as others. A positive spillover...

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Distribution of wealth and interdependent preferences

Grodner, Andrew (contributor); … - 2008

We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or negative utility from the leisure of the other (non-social) individual. We show that the...

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"It wasn't me, it was them!" - Social influence in risky behavior by adolescents

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); Lohéac, Youenn (contributor) - 2005

Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social interactions make consumption "sticky". We use detailed panel data from the Add Health survey to examine...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002764236

Social interaction and stock market participation : evidence from British panel data

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2010

This paper uses data from the British National Child Development Study to investigate the relationship between social interaction and participation in the stock market through holding stocks and/or shares at the individual level. In accordance with the existing literature, the results reveal...

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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2009

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries we investigate households' attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in Southern countries, France and Belgium, where fewer households have a mortgage outstanding relative to...

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