Myong‐Il Kang; Ikeda, Shinsuke - In: Health Economics 23 (2014) 12, pp. 1443-1464
ABSTRACT By using a panel survey of Japanese adults, we show that smoking behavior is associated with personal time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic discounting and the sign effect, in the way that theory predicts: smoking depends positively on the discount rate and the degree of...