The theory of Rational Addiction

Addiction ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Rogeberg
Keyword(s):  
Rational Addiction

Rational addiction to alcohol: panel data analysis of liquor consumption

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 485-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Badi H. Baltagi ◽  
James M. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Rational Addiction

Rational addiction and cultural goods: the case of the Italian theatregoer

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Concetta Castiglione ◽  
Davide Infante
Keyword(s):  
Rational Addiction ◽  
Cultural Goods

History-dependence in a rational addiction model

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gavrila ◽  
G. Feichtinger ◽  
G. Tragler ◽  
R.F. Hartl ◽  
P.M. Kort
Keyword(s):  
Rational Addiction ◽  
History Dependence ◽  
Rational Addiction Model

Rational Addiction to Caffeine: An Analysis of Coffee Consumption

1996 ◽  
Vol 104 (5) ◽  
pp. 1100-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilss Olekalns ◽  
Peter Bardsley
Keyword(s):  
Coffee Consumption ◽  
Rational Addiction

Understanding Heroin as a ‘Rational Addiction’

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
John F.P. Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Rational Addiction

ADVERTISING RESTRICTIONS AND CIGARETTE SMOKING: EVIDENCE FROM MYOPIC AND RATIONAL ADDICTION MODELS

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
NATSUKO IWASAKI ◽  
CAROL HORTON TREMBLAY ◽  
VICTOR J. TREMBLAY
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Rational Addiction ◽  
Advertising Restrictions

scholarly journals Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity

2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Adda ◽  
Francesca Cornaglia
Keyword(s):  
Large Population ◽  
Cigarette Consumption ◽  
Rational Addiction ◽  
Compensatory Behavior ◽  
Smoking Intensity ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Cotinine Concentration

This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration—a metabolite of nicotine—measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate for tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking a given cigarette more intensively is detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking, and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from estimation biases.

scholarly journals Alcohol Consumption and Its Adverse Effects in Poland in Years 1950–2005

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Bielinska-Kwapisz ◽  
Zofia Mielecka-Kubien
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Demand Function ◽  
Substitution Effects ◽  
Rational Addiction ◽  
Blood Alcohol ◽  
Alcohol Demand ◽  
Total Alcohol ◽  
Rational Addiction Model

This study examines changes in alcohol consumption and its adverse effects in Poland from 1950 to 2005. First, we estimate the total alcohol demand function and test Becker and Murphy's (1988) rational addiction model. Next, we explore substitution effects between beer, wine, and spirits and report income and own- and cross-price elasticities of demand for beer, wine, and spirits. Finally, we examine some adverse effects of alcohol consumption: traffic accidents, suicide rates, and vandalism rates. In particular, the effect of lowering the blood alcohol level limit (BAC) on traffic accidents is estimated.

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