Smoking as a bad habit: a behavioral economics perspective
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Perspective Behavioral economics: Reunifying psychology and economics
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Statistics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2668-6309
DOI: 10.2478/icas-2019-0038