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Smoking today and stopping tomorrow: a limited foresight perspective

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This article considers an intertemporal decision problem in which the agent has limited foresight. It offers an interpretation of why people may smoke when they are young--as a result of having a short horizon of foresight--and refrain from smoking when they get older--as a result of having better foresight.

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halshs-00754440 , version 1 (20-11-2012)

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Philippe Jehiel, Andrew Lilico. Smoking today and stopping tomorrow: a limited foresight perspective. CESifo Economic Studies, 2010, 56 (2), pp.141-164. ⟨10.1093/cesifo/ifp028⟩. ⟨halshs-00754440⟩
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