کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
11023321 1701305 2018 33 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Smoking kills: An economic theory of addiction, health deficit accumulation, and longevity
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
سیگار کشیدن: یک نظریه اقتصادی اعتیاد، انباشت کمبود سلامتی و طول عمر
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
چکیده انگلیسی
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 longevity. I distinguish two types of addiction: sophisticated and naive. Individuals with sophisticated addiction perfectly control their addiction. Individuals with naive addiction, though otherwise rational and forward looking, fail to fully understand how their addiction develops. I argue that the life cycle consumption pattern predicted for naive addiction is more suitable for motivating empirically observable patterns of addictive goods consumption. I take the case of smoking as unhealthy behavior, calibrate the model with U.S. data, and apply it in order to investigate the life cycle patterns of smoking and quitting smoking and the socioeconomic gradients of unhealthy consumption and longevity.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 62, November 2018, Pages 1-12
نویسندگان
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