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 …

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 …

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 …

The milk addiction paradox refers to an empirical finding in which commodities that are typically considered to be non … and when using aggregate data, and it suggests that the AR(2) model typically used in the addiction literature is prone to … produce spurious result in favor of rational addiction. Using both simulated and real data, we show that the milk addiction …

Since the end of the eighties the Becker and Murphy model of rational addiction has been the dominant approach to … estimate addiction effects. A rational addictive consumer, a smoker for instance, is supposed to maximize over the life cycle a … stable utility function and to be fully aware of the future consequences of her addiction and chooses to be an addicted …