The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse : An Integration of Econometric and Behavioral Economic Research / Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, Warren K. Bickel, Henry Saffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bickel, Warren K., Editor.

Chaloupka, Frank J., IV, Editor.

Grossman, Michael, Editor.

Saffer, Henry, Editor.

Series:

Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)

National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Substance abuse--Economic aspects--United States--Congresses.

Substance abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conventional wisdom once held that the demand for addictive substances like cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs was unlike that for any other economic good and, therefore, unresponsive to traditional market forces. Recently, however, researchers from two disparate fields, economics and behavioral psychology, have found that increases in the overall price of an addictive substance can significantly reduce both the number of users and the amounts those users consume. Changes in the "full price" of addictive substances-including monetary value, time outlay, effort to obtain, and potential penalties for illegal use-yield marked variations in behavioral outcomes and demand. The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse brings these distinctive fields of study together and presents for the first time an integrated assessment of their data and results. Unique and innovative, this multidisciplinary volume will serve as an important resource in the current debates concerning alcohol and drug use and abuse and the impacts of legalizing illicit drugs.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Tobacco Taxes, Smoking Restrictions, and Tobacco Use

2. The Behavioral Economics of Smoking

3. The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats

4. Delayed-Reward Discounting in Alcohol Abuse

5. The Demand for Cocaine and Marijuana by Youth

6. Applying Behavioral Economics to the Challenge of Reducing Cocaine Abuse

7. Demographic Differentials in the Demand for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs

8. A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Polydrug Abuse in Heroin Addicts

9. Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs?

10. Employment as a Drug Abuse Treatment Intervention: A Behavioral Economic Analysis

11. Income Alters the Relative Reinforcing Effects of Drug and Nondrug Reinforcers

12. Does Drug Use Cause Poverty?

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

This volume contains papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 27-28 March 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612070310

9781282070318

1282070312

9780226100494

0226100499

OCLC:

318240480