The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Handbook of Health Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 95-199

  Cawley, John ^a   Ruhm, Christopher J ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Advertising; Alcohol; Behavioral economics; Bounded rationality; Crime; Diet; Drugs; Education; Employment; Externalities; Food; Health behaviors; Human capital; Hyperbolic discounting; Income; Information; Medical costs; Neuroeconomics; Obesity; Peers; Physical activity; Prices; Public health; Public policy; Sex; Smoking; Subsidies; Taxation; Time preference; Tobacco; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 83255188036     PISSN: 15740064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53592-4.00003-7     Document Type: Chapter

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