0 A habit-forming activity or drug makes you want to do or take it repeatedly.
It has retained a touch of its 'semi-urban', 'semi-pastoral' past and can be habit-forming; 'those who come to the city do not go back'.
The aim of the paper is to study how habit-forming behavior affects the supply-side responses of capital and labor to changes in fiscal policy.
A habit-forming behavior departs from the behavior prevailing with time separable preferences because agents raise their consumption only gradually.
As a result, the medical community began to publicise the habit-forming properties of such medications.
Households are assumed to possess habit-forming, endogenous rates of time preference.
I do not believe that they are quite aware of the dreadful habit-forming effect these drugs have on people, and particularly on young people.
We are also in favour of the ban on habit-forming additives.
I think we have probably stimulated drug-taking, in the sense of the habit-forming drug-taking, because of this over-prescribing.