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Consumer Behaviour, Labour Supply and Diabetes: The Complex Case

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Joao Ricardo Faria (School of Social Sciences University of Texas at Dallas)

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This article examines the behaviour of a consumer diagnosed with diabetes. It is shown that the medical treatment of the disease creates incentives that make diabetic's consumption and wieght display cyclical patterns. One implication is that labour supply can be cyclical as well.

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Paper provided by School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney in its series Working Paper Series with number 88.

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Date of creation: 01 Aug 1999
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Keywords: consumption behaviour; labour supply; limit cycles; health;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D91 - Microeconomics - - Intertemporal Choice and Growth - - - Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis

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  1. Viscusi, W Kip, 1985. "Consumer Behavior and the Safety Effects of Product Safety Regulation," Journal of Law & Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 28(3), pages 527-53, October.
  2. Dockner, Engelbert J & Feichtinger, Gustav, 1993. "Cyclical Consumption Patterns and Rational Addiction," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(1), pages 256-63, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Franz Wirl, 1994. "The ramsey model revisited: The optimality of cyclical consumption and growth," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 81-98, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Kahn, Matthew E, 1998. "Health and Labor Market Performance: The Case of Diabetes," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 16(4), pages 878-99, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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