In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and … motivating empirically observable patterns of addictive goods consumption. I take the case of smoking as unhealthy behavior …

literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed …

In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and … motivating empirically observable patterns of addictive goods consumption. I take the case of smoking as unhealthy behavior …

model with endogenous aging and longevity. Individuals can slow down aging and postpone death by health investments and by … reducing unhealthy consumption, conceptualized as smoking. We show that individuals continuously revise their original plans to … smoke less and invest more in their health. Consequently, they accumulate health deficits faster and die earlier than …

In this paper, I introduce depression to the economics of human health and aging. Based on studies from happiness … fundamentals. The model is used to explain how untreated depression leads to unhealthy behavior and adverse health outcomes …: depressed individuals are predicted to save less, invest less in their health, consume more unhealthy goods, and exercise less …

In this paper I discuss overweight and obesity and their repercussions on health deficit accumulation and longevity in … eating behavior on weight gain and health, exercises to lose weight, invests money to improve health and saves for health …