constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying …-college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction as well as to a deadly overdose. The structural model …

controversial. I adapt the classic Becker-Murphy model of rational addiction for video games and apply it to a micro-data panel … collected from the online video game Team Fortress 2. I find evidence of significant rational addiction; past and future … individual potential addicts in a way consistent with the rational addiction model. Finally, including learning-by-doing provides …

A model of rational addiction (RA) with optimal inventories is developed and empirically tested using data on purchases …

The milk addiction paradox refers to an empirical finding in which commodities that are typically considered to be non … and when using aggregate data, and it suggests that the AR(2) model typically used in the addiction literature is prone to … produce spurious result in favor of rational addiction. Using both simulated and real data, we show that the milk addiction …

incorporates both addiction and social interactions and show that, under certain conditions, social interactions reinforce the … effects of addiction. I also show how the dynamics introduced by addiction can solve the pernicious problem of identifying the …

incorporates both addiction and social interactions and show that, under certain conditions, social interactions reinforce the … effects of addiction. I also show how the dynamics introduced by addiction can solve the pernicious problem of identifying the …