Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

This paper makes two contributions to the modeling of addiction. First, we provide new and
convincing evidence that smokers are forward-looking in their smoking decisions, using …

We analyse the evolution of beer consumption between countries and over time. Historically,
there have been major changes in beer consumption in the world. In recent times, per capita …

The use of illicit drugs by American youth rose dramatically during the 1990s. Reducing
these trends is an important policy objective. However, for policies to be effective it is …

We examine how soda sales changed due to the campaign attention and election outcome
of a local excise tax on sugar‐sweetened beverages. Using panel data of beverage sales …

This paper examines the German cinema market using time series data covering the period
1950–2002. Applying estimation techniques such as OLS, 2SLS and SUR, we identify …

A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction'model,
which has the key empirical prediction that the current consumption of addictive goods …

Recent research shows that the dramatic rise in obesity in the United States is due more to
the overconsumption of unhealthy foods than underactivity. This study tests for an addiction …

This paper estimates Becker's rational addiction model using a demand for cinema
equation. The results do not seem to be strongly supportive of the rational addiction model …

This paper mitigates previous evidence of out-performance of sin stocks–stocks of
companies involved in producing tobacco, alcohol and gaming–on the US market. It has …