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The Price of Alcohol, Wife Abuse, and Husband Abuse
Markowitz, Sara - 1999
Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 … of alcohol, as measured by a weighted average of the price of alcohol from beer, wine, and liquor, will serve to reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471895
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Demographic Differentials in the Demand for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs
Saffer, Henry - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to estimate demographic differentials in alcohol and illicit drug use, participation, own … Survey of Drug Abuse and links drug and alcohol prices and policies to the individual records. The size of this data set … to reduce substance abuse have been oriented towards increasing the price of alcohol and illicit drugs. Little, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472377
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Alcohol Advertising and Motor Vehicle Fatalities
Saffer, Henry - 1994
The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effect of alcohol advertising on motor vehicle fatalities. The … markets in the United States and includes 1200 observations. Since motor vehicle fatalities and alcohol advertising are … also estimated to predict the effect of changes in the price of advertising. The regression results show that alcohol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474220
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Analysis of age discrimination in the rental housing market in Japan : an approach using a fair housing audit
Nakagawa, Masayuki (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
A fair housing audit is an important tool for measuring racial and ethnic discrimination in housing market, so they are widely used for policy purposes in the U.S. Each audit consists of a visit to a real estate agent by a minority individual and a majority individual with equal qualification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001751270
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Why is there discrimination against the elderly? : Experimental and empirical analyses for the rental housing market in Japan
Nakagawa, Masayuki (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Nakagawa(2001) and Nakagawa(2002) applies a fair housing audit technique to age discrimination in Japanese rental housing market, using data from the 2001 Osaka Audits. However, the experimental design of the study had some problems to be improved, e.g. lacked generality. This paper reports the...
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A House of Her Own : Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women
Costa, Dora L. - 1999
I show that the trend towards single households among older nonmarried women, the majority of whom were widows, has been ongoing only since 1940 and investigate the factors that fostered the rise in separate living quarters since mid-century by examining the impact of Old Age Assistance on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471644
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Age and the Quality of Work : The Case of Modern American Painters
Galenson, David W. - 1999
Psychologists have found that the age at which successful practitioners typically do their best work varies across professions, but they have not considered whether these peak ages change over time, as economic models suggest they might. Using auction records, we estimate the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471672
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Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom
Kim, Scott Daewon; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich biographical data, linked with patents and publications, for 83,000 American scientists in 1956 at the height of the baby boom. Our analyses reveal a unique life-cycle pattern of productivity for mothers. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660113
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Patterns of Time Use Among Older People
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and younger people; between developed and developing countries;...
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