Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

reprioritization, one of the modalities for realizing fiscal space for health. Theory and cross-country empirical analyses do not … provide clear, cut explanations for the observed variations in government prioritization of health. Standard economic theory …

This paper models the decision to quit smoking like an investment decision where the quitter incurs a sunk withdrawal … quit open as they learn more about the damage that smoking will have on their future utility. Policies which reduce a … smoker’s uncertainty about the damage that smoking with have on their future utility is likely to make them quit earlier. …

This paper models the decision to quit smoking like an investment decision where the quitter incurs a sunk withdrawal … quit open as they learn more about the damage that smoking will have on their future utility. Policies which reduce a … smoker’s uncertainty about the damage that smoking with have on their future utility is likely to make them quit earlier. …

jointly affect body weight and addiction to smoking. Focusing on direct and cross-price effects, we compare tobacco taxes and …The debate on tobacco and fat taxes often treats smoking and eating as independent behaviors. However, the available … evidence shows that they are interdependent, which implies that policies against smoking or obesity may have larger scope than …

, that the introduction of graphic label warnings (GLWs)on cigarette packages could reduce smoking prevalence in the US by …

other, more complex models of addiction and problems of self control. We apply the model to analyze cigarette smoking. Our … main results are that, under not implausible conditions, making cigarettes more addictive can reduce smoking and making …

This paper provides an overview of microeconometric evidence on various aspects of smoking using data from the UK … cigarette smoking which provides data on all aspects of the “life-cycle” of a smoker. Results are reported for parametric … survival analysis of the age of starting and the number of years of smoking; univariate and bivariate probit models suggest …

The economics of health behaviours concerns decisions about smoking, diet and exercise, drinking alcohol, and other … addiction. Empirical economic research on health behaviours is extensive, and explores both the determinants and consequences of …