Keyword: smoking
Covering Risk or Risky Behaviors? (7/27/2000)
The insurance solution to risky behaviors, such as smoking and underage driving, is to raise premium to discourage such behaviors and not to subsidize the treatment of such behaviors.
Keywords: health plan, insurance, risk, risky behavior, smoking, smoking intervention, subsidy
Doing It Now or Later (8/20/1999)
People who believe that they will procrastinate when faced with immediate costs and prematurely appropriate immediate rewards may counteract this tendency sometimes to their own benefits.
Keywords: addiction, costs, misbehave, naive, present bias, present-bias, procrastinate, procrastination, rewards, self control, self-control, smoking, sophisticated, time inconsistency