This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its … addiction equation cannot distinguish between time consistency and inconsistency in preferences. We show that an encompassing … general specification of the rational addiction model embeds the possibility of testing for time consistent versus time …

longitudinal data from RLMS, estimating a quasi-hyperbolic discounting rational addiction model for young and adult smokers …

The milk addiction paradox refers to an empirical finding in which commodities that are typically considered to be non … and when using aggregate data, and it suggests that the AR(2) model typically used in the addiction literature is prone to … produce spurious result in favor of rational addiction. Using both simulated and real data, we show that the milk addiction …