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A Model of Addiction and Social Interactions
Reif, Julian - 2018
incorporates both addiction and social interactions and show that, under certain conditions, social interactions reinforce the … effects of addiction. I also show how the dynamics introduced by addiction can solve the pernicious problem of identifying the …
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Harm Reduction : When Does It Improve Health, and When Does it Backfire?
Cawley, John H.; Dragone, Davide - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
addiction benefit because they can switch to a less harmful substance, but opponents argue that this could encourage abstainers … to begin using the harm reduction method or even the original addictive good. This paper builds on theories of addiction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226123
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Rational Addiction, Peer Externalities and Long Run Effects of Public Policy
Kenkel, Donald S. - 2002
addiction. In contrast to prior research, we allow individuals to make their consumption decisions simultaneous with savings and … labor supply. When addictive goods have a stronger habit formation effect (an addiction effect'), individuals choose to save … less due to the anticipated adverse health consequences of addiction (a detrimental health effect'). This is particularly …
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Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions
Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2019
Many real-life settings of consumer-choice involve social interactions, causing targeted policies to have spillover-effects. This paper develops novel empirical tools for analyzing demand and welfare-effects of policy-interventions in binary choice settings with social interactions. Examples...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479897
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Optimal Management of a Pandemic in the Short Run and the Long Run
Abel, Andrew B. - 2020
Social policy to limit interactions can slow the spread of infection, but this benefit comes at the cost of reduced output. We solve an optimal control problem to choose the degree of interaction to maximize an objective function that rewards output and penalizes excess deaths. Optimal policy...
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Sufficient Statistics for Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare
Baqaee, David; Burstein, Ariel T.; Koike-Mori, Yasutaka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide a method to measure welfare, in money-metric terms, taking into account expectations about the future. Our two key assumptions are that (1) the expenditure function is separable between the present and the future, and (2) there are some households that do not face idiosyncratic...
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Determinants of Health Insurance Enrollment and Health Expenditure in Ghana : An Empirical Analysis
Adjei-Mantey, Kwame; Horioka, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data from wave 7 of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 7) with emphasis on the role of risk preferences and the availability of health facilities in one's own community. It is...
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The Nexus between Long-term Care Insurance, Formal Care, Informal Care, and Bequests : The Case of Japan
Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Tang, Xueli - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nexus between long-term care insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and...
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Differences in How and Why Social Comparison and Real-Time Feedback Impact Resource Use : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Andor, Mark Andreas; Götte, Lorenz; Price, Michael Keith; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We compare the behavior and welfare effects of two popular interventions for resource conservation. The first intervention is social comparison reports (SC), which primarily provide consumers with information motivating behavioral change. The second intervention is real-time feedback (RTF),...
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The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads : Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2024
Research on the causal effects of online advertising on consumer welfare is limited due to challenges in running large-scale field experiments and tracking effects over extended periods. We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising in which a random 0.5% subset of all users...
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