This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals …

We investigate behavioral responses to a staggered disruption in the supply of prescription opioids across U.S. states …: the introduction of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Using administrative datasets, we find PDMPs … curtail the proliferation of prescription opioids. Physicians respond to monitoring on the extensive margin, limiting the …

decrease suicides in places with strong addiction-help networks, implying that prescription drug abuse is associated with an …In this paper we investigate the dual role of supply restrictions and drug treatment in combating the concurrent rise …

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …

This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its … addiction equation cannot distinguish between time consistency and inconsistency in preferences. We show that an encompassing … general specification of the rational addiction model embeds the possibility of testing for time consistent versus time …

a nationally representative Russian survey spanning the period 1994-2003 to estimate a rational addiction (RA) model for …

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on …