A quasi-hyperbolic discounting approach to smoking behavior

Addiction has attracted considerable attention in health and behavioral economics, and economists have attempted to understand addiction from the viewpoint of decision making over time. This paper investigates whether two time preference parameters can successfully predict smoking status, including...

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Autor principal: Ida, Takanori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25006542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-014-0005-7
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description Addiction has attracted considerable attention in health and behavioral economics, and economists have attempted to understand addiction from the viewpoint of decision making over time. This paper investigates whether two time preference parameters can successfully predict smoking status, including cigarette dependence. Both the present bias and the constant time preference parameters account for smoking behavior status and cigarette dependence.
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spelling pubmed-40776252014-07-08 A quasi-hyperbolic discounting approach to smoking behavior Ida, Takanori Health Econ Rev Research Addiction has attracted considerable attention in health and behavioral economics, and economists have attempted to understand addiction from the viewpoint of decision making over time. This paper investigates whether two time preference parameters can successfully predict smoking status, including cigarette dependence. Both the present bias and the constant time preference parameters account for smoking behavior status and cigarette dependence. Springer 2014-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4077625/ /pubmed/25006542 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-014-0005-7 Text en Copyright © 2014 Ida; licensee Springer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077625/
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