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 …

This paper investigates whether new health information affects smoking behavior. Interpreting three distinct categories … probability model is applied to estimate the effects of three different health events on the decision to quit smoking. The …. Suffering from physical health problems increases the inclination to stop smoking, the opposite holds true for mental disorders …

This paper investigates whether new health information aff ects smoking behavior. Interpreting three distinct … probability model is applied to estimate the effects of three different health events on the decision to quit smoking. The …. Suffering from physical health problems increases the inclination to stop smoking, the opposite holds true for mental disorders …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

In the present paper it will be shown empirically that smoking decreases labour productivity. Panel data analysis is …

they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health … that produces the unhealthy food charges a higher price and obtains a larger share of the market unless the emotional/health …

in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing …This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women …

in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing …This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women …

in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing …This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women …