Laporte, Audrey; Karimova, Alfia; Ferguson, Brian - In: Health Economics 19 (2010) 9, pp. 1063-1074
The time path of consumption from a rational addiction (RA) model contains information about an individual's tendency to be forward looking. In this paper, we use quantile regression (QR) techniques to investigate whether the tendency to be forward looking varies systematically with the level of...