Smoking Today and Stopping Tomorrow: A Limited Foresight Perspective

31 Pages Posted: 14 Apr 2009

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Philippe Jehiel

University College London - Department of Economics; Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Economique (CERAS); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Andrew Lilico

University College London - Department of Economics

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Date Written: April 2009

Abstract

This paper 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 - and arguably have a short horizon of foresight - and refrain from smoking when they get older - and their foresight is better.

JEL Classification: D03, D84

Suggested Citation

Jehiel, Philippe and Lilico, Andrew, Smoking Today and Stopping Tomorrow: A Limited Foresight Perspective (April 2009). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2603, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1379442 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1379442

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