Addiction is an issue that as many others admits different approaches: psychologic, sociologic, medical,...Very recently -within the last two decades-, Gary Becker, once more, has introduced the economic perspective to analyse this phenomenon. Since addition is usually leading to market...

This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that the gap between actual and full school enrollment was...