SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Keng, Shao-Hsun; Huffman, Wallace E..

Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual's lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge drinking which is an unhealthy lifestyle, and stature or mature height which is a young adult's health endowment. This study presents and fits a dynamic model of an individual's demand for health, demand for binge drinking, labor supply, and wage or demand for labor equations to NLSY 1979 cohort panel data of young people. We find that binge drinking has a negative but insignificant effect on the...

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Health; Labor productivity; Labor supply; Binge drinking; Youth; Panel data; Rational addiction; Human capital; Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital.

Ano: 1999

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18252

Alcoholic Beverages and Cigarettes: Complements or Substitutes? A Pseudo Panel Approach

In this paper, using pseudo panel data we analyze the relation between cigarette and alcoholic beverage consumption within the rational addiction framework. We believe that pseudo panel data approach has many advantages compared to aggregate and panel data models. We found that alcoholic beverages are complements for cigarettes, while it is not the same the other way around. Moreover, we found that alcohol is a gateway for cigarette which further supports our conclusion concerning the reinforcing effect of alcohol consumption on cigarette consumption. We believe that drinking works as a trigger for smoking especially in social settings like bars while it is also possible (although less likely) that people who want to cut cigarette consumption might...

How do Smoking Bans in Bars/Restaurants Affect Alcohol Consumption?

Palavras-chave: Cigarette; Alcohol; Rational addiction; Pseudo panel; Demand and Price Analysis.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98788

In this study, we employ a rational addiction framework to analyze the effects of smoking bans on alcohol consumption in bars/restaurants. We use pseudo panel data approach which has many advantages compared to panel data. Although cigarettes and alcohol are complements in consumption, our findings suggest that smoking bans in restaurants do not have a significant effect on the restaurant alcohol consumption. It is possible that smoking bans at restaurants cause a decrease in the restaurant alcohol consumption of smokers, but lead to an increase in the restaurant alcohol consumption of nonsmokers. If this is the case, the net effect of smoking bans on overall restaurant alcohol consumption would be zero. These results are just preliminary, and further...

The Interaction between Alcohol and Cigarette Consumption

Palavras-chave: Cigarette; Alcohol; Smoking ban; Rational addiction; Pseudo panel; Demand and Price Analysis.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103600

It has long been recognized that cigarette and alcohol not only have adverse health effects, but also negative externalities imposed on third parties. If cigarette and alcohol are related in consumption, the information on the way in which they are related may allow a better coordination of the public policies concerning these goods. In this study, we use the expenditure data of a panel of US households to analyze the relation between cigarette and alcohol consumption in a rational addiction framework. We believe that individual level data would be a better tool to analyze addictive behavior as aggregate data might conceal much of micro behavior. We found that cigarettes and alcoholic beverages are substitutes. However, both cigarette and alcohol demand do...

Rationally Addicted to Cigarettes, Alcohol and Coffee? A Pseudo Panel Approach

Palavras-chave: Rational addiction; Panel data; Cigarette consumption; Alcohol consumption; Demand and Price Analysis.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61305

In this paper, using pseudo panel data we analyze the relation between cigarette, alcohol, and coffee consumption within the rational addiction framework. Our purpose in this study is twofold. First, we want to get more insights about behavioral processes concerning cigarette, alcohol and coffee consumption. Second, we hope that our attempt to generalize rational addiction model to include three addictive goods will be useful to generate further research in the related literature. We found that cross price elasticity of cigarette with respect to alcohol price is negative, while cross price elasticity of alcohol with respect to cigarette price is positive. We believe that drinking works as a trigger for smoking especially in social settings like bars while...

Rational Addiction Evidence From Carbonated Soft Drinks

Palavras-chave: Cigarette; Alcohol; Coffee; Rational addiction; Pseudo panel; Demand and Price Analysis.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103602

Xiaoou, Liu.

This paper applies the Becker-Murphy (1988) theory of rational addiction to the case of carbonated soft drinks, using a time-varying parameter model and scanner data from 46 U.S. cities. Empirical results provide strong evidence that carbonated soft drinks are rationally addictive, thus opening the door to taxation and regulation. Taking rational addition into account, estimated demand elasticities are much lower than previous estimates using scanner data.