Substance use individual behaviour, social interactions, markets, and politics /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bolin, Kristian, Cawley, John, Lindgren, Björn, 1942-, Grossman, Michael, 1942-
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2005.
• Σειρά: Advances in health economics and health services research ; v. 16.
• Θέματα: Business & Economics > Economics > Microeconomics.; Drug & substance abuse: social aspects.; Economics.; Substance abuse.

The economics of substance use and abuse deals with the consumption of goods that share two properties. First, they are addictive in the sense that an increase in past consumption of the good leads to an increase in current consumption. Second, their consumption harms the consumer and others. This s...

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• Antidepressants and the suicide rate : is there really a connection? / Matz Dahlberg, Douglas Lundin
• Choice, social interaction and addiction : the social roots of addictive preferences / Ole-Jørgen Skog
• Individual behaviours and substance use : the role of price / Michael Grossman
• The spread of drug use : epidemic models or social interaction? / Hans O. Melberg
• Structural estimation of peer effects in youth smoking / Brian Krauth
• Trends in wine consumption in Norway : is diffusion theory applicable? / Ingeborg Rossow
• An investigation of the effects of alcohol policies on youth std / Michael Grossman, Robert Kaestner, Sara Markowitz
• Can we model the impact of increased drug treatment expenditure on the U.K. drug market? / Christine Godfrey, Steve Parrott, Gail Eaton, Anthony Culyer, Cynthia McDougall
• Tobacco control policies and youth smoking : evidence from a new era / John A. Tauras, Sara Markowitz, John Cawley
• The fires are not out yet : higher taxes and young adult smoking / Philip DeCicca, Don Kenkel, Alan Mathios
• The psychobiology of aggressive behaviour / Lil Träskman-Bendz, Sofie Westling
• Coupons and advertising in markets for addictive goods : do cigarette manufacturers react to known future tax increases? / Dean R. Lillard, Andrew Sfekas
• Symbolism and rationality in the politics of psychoactive substances / Robin Room
• What does it mean to decriminalize marijuana? A cross-national empirical examination / Rosalie L. Pacula, Robert MacCoun, Peter Reuter, Jamie Chriqui, Beau Kilmer, Katherine Harris, Letizia Paoli, Carsten Schäfer
• Economic perspectives on injecting drug use / David E. Bloom, Ajay Mahal, Brendan O'Flaherty
• Models pertaining to how drug policy should vary over the course of a drug epidemic / Jonathan P. Caulkins
• Demand for illicit drugs among pregnant women / Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy E. Reichman, Dhaval Dave
• Economic evaluation of relapse prevention for substance users : treatment settings and health care policy / Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen, Tadashi Yamada
• The effect of alcohol consumption on the earnings of older workers / Henry Saffer, Dhaval Dave
• Drugs and juvenile crime : evidence from a panel of siblings and twins / H. Naci Mocan, Erdal Tekin
• Introduction / Björn Lindgren, Michael Grossman
• Preface / Björn Lindgren, Michael Grossman.