Opium Addiction--A Behavioral / Economic Analysis

鸦片成瘾——行为/经济分析

• 批准号: 6365633
• 负责人: SIDDHARTH CHANDRA
• 金额: $ 7.27万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-01 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6365633
• 关键词: Indonesia; drug addiction; drug controls; health care policy; human data; income; mathematical model; model design /development; opiate alkaloid; socioeconomics

The central goal of this project is to use econometric methods to estimate the different behavioral characteristics of "addicts" and "casual users" of opium. Economic theories of addiction predict the existence of two distinct kinds of consumers, those who consume large amounts of the drug, or "addicts," and those who consume small amounts of the drug, or "casual users." While there are rigorous econometric studies of the aggregate responses of groups of consumers of addictive substances to changes in income, price, and other economic variables, there exists no study to date that uses econometric methods to differentiate between "addicts" and "casual users." Because the sale of opium was legal and conducted by a government monopoly (the Opium Regie) in the Netherlands Indies in the early twentieth century, there exist unique and reliable aggregate statistics on prices, consumption, numbers of opium users, and a variety of other related economic data. The estimation of models of rational and myopic addiction using these data will provide inferences about the behavioral characteristics of two individual types of users, "addicts" and "casual users."

该项目的中心目标是使用计量经济学方法估计鸦片“成瘾者”和“临时使用者”的不同行为特征。成瘾的经济理论预测存在两种不同的消费者，那些消费大量毒品的人，或“成瘾者”，以及那些消费少量毒品的人，或“偶然使用者”。虽然有严格的计量经济学研究成瘾物质消费者群体对收入，价格和其他经济变量变化的总体反应，但迄今为止还没有使用计量经济学方法区分“成瘾者”和“临时用户”的研究。“由于鸦片的销售是法律的，并在二十世纪初由荷属印度群岛的政府垄断（鸦片王国）进行，因此存在关于价格、消费、鸦片使用者人数和各种其他相关经济数据的独特和可靠的综合统计数据。使用这些数据对理性和近视成瘾模型的估计将提供关于两种个体类型的用户（“成瘾者”和“临时用户”）的行为特征的推断。"

项目成果

Economic manifestations of opiate addiction: evidence from historical data from colonial Indonesia.

阿片成瘾的经济表现：来自殖民地印度尼西亚历史数据的证据。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.08.007
• 发表时间: 2007
• 期刊: Drug and alcohol dependence
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Chandra,Siddharth