The relationship between smoking initiation and time discount factor, risk aversion and information

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 287-289

  Sato, Masayo ^a   Ohkusa, Yasushi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POPULATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMOKING;

EID: 0038066671     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350485032000056909     Document Type: Article

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