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The purpose of this chapter is to examine the role of alcohol policies in reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among youth. Previous research has shown that risky sexual practices (eg. unprotected sex and multiple partn[...]
J. WILLIAMS ; J. C. VAN OURS ; M. GROSSMAN | 2016
Dans Health Economics (Vol.25, n°9, September 2016) Article : PériodiqueIn this paper, we investigate the relationship between cannabis use and attitudes to legalizing the use of cannabis. Predictions from theory provide a means of learning about the roles of information, self interest and regret in explaining diffe[...]
I discuss economic approaches to the demand for harmfully addictive substances with an emphasis on the role of money prices. First, I examine trends in the real prices and in the prevalence of the use of cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and[...]
G. S. BECKER ; M. GROSSMAN ; K. M. MURPHY | 1991
Dans American Economic Review (Vol.81, n°2, May 1991) Article : PériodiqueLe débat sur la légalisation des drogues amène les auteurs à s'interroger sur la façon dont évoluerait la consommation si les prix des drogues chutaient. L'approche des comportements de dépendance tend habituellement à indiquer que la consommati[...]
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, [...]
FRANÇAIS : Dans les analyses économiques du comportement addictif, la consommation de certaines denrées est définie comme addiction si une augmentation de la consommation passée conduit à une augmentation de la consommation courante. Du point d[...]
M. GROSSMAN ; F. J. CHALOUPKA | 1998
Dans Journal of Health Economics (Vol.17, n°4, August 1998) Article : PériodiqueThis paper applies the rational addiction model to the demand for cocaine by young adults in the Monitoring the Future panel. The price of cocaine is added to this survey from the Drug Enforcement Administration's System to Retrieve Information [...]
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