This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...

Aus dem Vorwort des Herausgebers: Die Forschungsgruppe »Gesundheitsrisiken und Präventionspolitik« untersucht Voraussetzungen, Wirkungen und professionelle sowie politische Konfigurationen der Herausbildung von Strategien der sozialen Prävention, vor allem im Hinblick aus die überwiegend...

We explore the role of an individual's historical lineage in determining economic status, holding constant his or her current location. This is complementary to the more common approach to studying how history shapes economic outcomes across locations. Motivated by a large literature in social...