While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper … extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal … NMSSTR than nonsmokers. In addition, as low-earnings workers have a higher smoking prevalence than high-earnings workers …

in a Monte Carlo experiment. The proposed method is applied to the estimation of a cigarette demand function. …

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

births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and a new proxy for addiction to illicit opioids. We find that, if …

model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and …-college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction as well as to a deadly overdose. We construct a …

Growth and Health Study), we examine (1) whether bulimic behavior is onsistent with addiction criteria as stated in the …) reflects tolerance formed from an addiction or if it can be attributed to slow learning about the deleterious health effects of … BN. Making the case for treating BN as an addiction has important policy implications. First, it suggests that the timing …

Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to … be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order …

To evaluate the costs and benefits of various anti-smoking policy alternatives including taxation and four cessation … incidence and mortality rates of four major cigarette related diseases, price elasticity of cigarette demand and unit costs of … alternatives that yield the same amount of cigarette consumption, cessation programs yield lower costs to households and the …

The goal of this research is to quantify the association between food insecurity and smoking among low-income families … smoking prevalence is higher among low-income families who are food insecure compared to low-income families who are food … secure (43.6 percent versus 31.9 percent). Multivariate analysis reveals that smoking is associated with an increase in food …