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Time Preferences: Health and Addiction

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BICKEL, W., ODUM, A. & MADDEN, G. (1999), “Impulsivity and cigarette smoking: delay discounting in current, never and ex-smokers”, Psychopharmacology, 146(4): 447-454

BORGHANS, L. & GOLSTEYN, B. (2005), “Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index”, IZA Discussion Paper 1597

CHANDRAN, S. & MENON, G. (2004), "When a day means more than a year: Effects of temporal framing on judgments of health risk", Journal of Consumer Research, 31: 373-389

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CHAPMAN, G.B. (2000), "Preferences for improving and declining sequences of health outcomes", Journal of Behavioural Decision Making, 13(2): 203-218

CHAPMAN, G.B. (2001), "Time Preferences for the very long term", Acta Psychologia, 108(2): 95-116

CHAPMAN, G.B.  (2002).  "Your Money or Your Health: Time Preferences and Trading Money for Health".  Medical Decision Making 22(5): 410-416

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CHAPMAN, G.B.  (2005).  "Short-Term Cost for Long-Term Benefit: Time Preference and Cancer Control".  Health Psychology 24(4): 41-48

FERSTERER, J. & WINTER-EBMER, R. (2003), “Smoking, discount rates and returns to education”, Economics of Education Review, 22: 561-566

GANIATS, T.G., CARSON, R.T., HAMM, R.M., CANTOR, S.B., SUMNER, W., SPANN, S.J., HAGEN, M.D., MILLER, C.  (2000).  "Population-based time preferences for future health outcomes".  Medical Decision Making 20(3): 263-270    

GIORDANO, L.A., BICKEL, W. K., LOWENSTEIN, G.A., JACOBS, E.A., MARSCH, L. & BADGER, G.J. (2002), “Mild opioid deprivation increases the degree that opioid-dependent outpatients discount delayed heroin and money”, Psychopharmacology, 163(2): 174-182

GYRD-HANSEN, D. (2002), “Comparing the results of applying different methods of eliciting time preferences for health”, European Journal of Health Economics, 3:10-16

HALL, P.A. & FONG, G.T.  (2007).  "Temporal self-regulation theory: A model for individual health behavior".  Health Psychology Review 1(1): 6-52

HOLT, D.D., GREEN, L. & MYERSON, J.  (2003).  "Is discounting impulsive? Evidence from temporal and probability discounting in gambling and non-gambling college students".  Behavioural Processes 64(3): 355-367

KHWAJA, A., SLOAN, F. & SALM, M. (2006), “Evidence on preferences and subjective beliefs of risk takers: The case of smokers”, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 24(4): 667-682

KHWAJA, A., SILVERMAN, D. & SLOAN, F.  (2007).  "Time preference, time discounting, and smoking decisions".  Journal of Health Economics 26(5): 927-949

KIRBY, K.N., PETRY, N.M., BICKEL, W.K.  (1999).  "Heroin addicts have higher discount rates than non-drug-using controls".  Journal of Experimental Psychology:General 128(1): 78-87

KIRBY, K.N., PETRY, N.M.  (2004).  "Heroin and cocaine abusers have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than alcoholics or non-drug-using controls".  Addiction 99(4): 461-471 

KOLLINS, S.H.  (2003).  "Delay discounting is associated with substance use in college students".  Addictive Behavior 28(6): 1167-1173

KOMLOS, J., SMITH, P. & BOGIN, B. (2003), “Obesity and the Rate of Time Preference: Is There A Connection?”, University of Munich Department of Economics Discussion Paper 2003-16

MITCHELL, S. (1999), “Measures of impulsivity in cigarette smokers and non-smokers”, Psychopharmacology, 146(4): 455-464

MITCHELL, J.M., FIELDS, H.L., D’ESPOSITO, M., & BOETTIGER, C.A. (2005). “Impulsive responding in alcoholics”, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 29(12), 1258-1269

MONTEROSSO, J., EHRMAN, R., NAPIER, K.L., O'BRIEN, C.P., CHILDRESS, A.R.  (2001).  "Three decision-making tasks in cocaine dependent patients: do they measure the same construct?".  Addiction 96(12): 1825-1837  

MUNASINGHE, L. & SICHERMAN, N. (2000), “Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice and Wage Growth”, NBER Working Paper 7542

ODUM, A.L., RAINAUD, C.P.  (2003).  "Discounting of delayed hypothetical money, alcohol, and food".  Behavioural Processes 64(3): 305-313 

OHMURA, Y., TAKAHASHI, T. & KITAMURA, N. (2005), “Discounting delayed and probabilistic monetary gains and losses by smokers of cigarettes”, Psychopharmacology, 182(4): 508-515

ORPHANIDES, A. & ZERVOS, D. (1998), "Myopia and Addictive Behaviour", The Economic Journal, 108(446): 75-91

PETRY, N. & CASARELLA, T. (1999), “Excessive discounting of delayed rewards in substance abusers with gambling problems”, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 56(1): 25-32

PETRY, N.M.  (2003).  "Discounting of money, health and freedom in substance abusers and controls".  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 71(2); 133-141

REYNOLDS, B. (2006), “The Experiential Discounting Task is sensitive to cigarette-smoking status and correlates with a measure of delay discounting”, Behavioural Pharmacology, 17(2): 133-142

SAYETTE, M.A. & LOWENSTEIN, G.A., KIRSCHNER, T.R. & TRAVIS, T. (2005), “Effects of Smoking Urge on Temporal Cognition”, Psychology of Addictive Behaviours, 19(1): 88-93

SHAPIRO, J.M. (2005), “Is there a daily discount rate? Evidence from the food stamp nutrition cycle”, Journal of Public Economics, 89: 303-325

VAN DER POL, M. & CAIRNS, J. (2000), “Negative and Zero Time Preference for Health”, Health Economics Letters, 9(2): 171-175 

VAN DER POL, M. & CAIRNS, J. (2001), "Estimating time preferences for health using discrete choice experiments", Social Science and Medicine, 52(9): 1459-1470

VAN DER POL, M. & CAIRNS, J.  (2002).  "A comparison of the discounted utility model and hyperbolic discounting models in the case of social and private intertemporal preferences for health".  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 49(1): 79-96

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WIGGERS, L., STALMEIER, P., OORT, F., SMETS, E., LEGEMATE, D. & DE HAES, J. (2005), “Do patients’preferences predict smoking cessation?”, Preventive Medicine, 41: 667-675