May 2011
IZA DP No. 5728: The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199
Keywords
- income
- health behaviors
- alcohol
- tobacco
- smoking
- drugs
- obesity
- diet
- food
- physical activity
- public health
- public policy
- taxation
- subsidies
- addiction
- externalities
- advertising
- information
- behavioral economics
- neuroeconomics
- human capital
- education
- prices
- sex
- time preference
- peers
- bounded rationality
- medical costs
- employment
- wages
- crime
- hyperbolic discounting