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community in which individuals are heterogenous with respect to the experience of chronic pain and susceptibility to addiction …). In the second period they consider whether to continue non-medical opioid use to feed an addiction. Non-medical opioid … opioid epidemic is conceptualized as the transition from an equilibrium at which opioid use is low and addiction is highly …
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This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals …
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This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political economy model of tax determination, I study the effect of voters with a group-based social conscience, so they care more about the well-being of those belonging to their own...
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This paper studies social-tie formation when individuals care about the geographical location of other individuals. In our model, the intensity of social interactions can be chosen at the same time as friends. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social...
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