The main purpose of this research is to prove if the price of the addictive substances and the consumer's income are determinants of the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and cocaine in Mexico. The contribution of this work is supported by the different way of consumption, addictive or...

The main purpose of this research is to prove if the price of the addictive substances and the consumer's income are determinants of the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and cocaine in Mexico. The contribution of this work is supported by the different way of consumption, addictive or...

The aim of this study is to measure the impact of gambling activity on health among a sample of 709 gamblers in Sardinia (Italy). In fact, gambling is often associated with other lifestyle risk factors that increase the negative effect of such activity. In this paper a multivariate probit...

Aujourd’hui les employeurs sont tenus de mettre tout en œuvre pour éviter que l’usage d’alcool ou de drogues de la part des salariés, puissent induire des accidents, voire même une détérioration de la santé de tels consommateurs. L’objet de cette communication est de montrer...

Drug use is one of the pressing issues facing humanity since time immemorial. Ground reality exhibits that there are linear association of drug use with violence, corruption, incest and numerous other immoral activities. Towards drugs addiction the policy approach of economists are based on...

The paper examines an effect of the return to human capital on health behavior. An approach is assumed in the paper which implies that health is an investment good complimentary for human capital. The latter is treated as actual skills and knowledge yielding a bonus above earnings. We propose a...

In XVII-XVIII centuries in England, the thinking of those who were concentrating on demographic phenomena was dominated by food resources, the development of capitalism and situation of the poor people. Also, profit and wages appeared as two complementary but opposite incomes, the profit...