9. Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Cigarette Smoking and Other Tobacco Use
6. 1. Tobacco Taxes, Smoking Restrictions, and Tobacco Use 15
7. 2. The Behavioral Economics of Smoking 31
8. II. Alcohol Use and Abuse
9. 3. The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats 75
10. 4. Delayed-Reward Discounting in Alcohol Abuse 103
11. III. Illicit Drug Use
12. 5. The Demand for Cocaine and Marijuana by Youth 133
13. 6. Applying Behavioral Economics to the Challenge of Reducing Cocaine Abuse 157
14. IV. Polydrug Use
15. 7. Demographic Differentials in the Demand for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs 187
16. 8. A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Polydrug Abuse in Heroin Addicts 213
17. V. Substance Abuse and Employment
18. 9. Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs? 251
19. 10. Employment as a Drug Abuse Treatment Intervention: A Behavioral Economic Analysis 279
20. VI. Substance Use and Income
21. 11. Income Alters the Relative Reinforcing Effects of Drug and Nondrug Reinforcers 311
22. 12. Does Drug Use Cause Poverty? 327
23. Contributors 369
24. Author Index 373
25. Subject Index 379