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The Effects of Cannabis Use on Physical and Mental Health

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether cannabis use affects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis use because the legal status of cannabis in the...

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Heterogeneity in Consumer Price Stickiness: A Microeconometric Investigation

Fougère, Denis; Le Bihan, Hervé; Sevestre, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

disaggregation competing-risks duration models that distinguish between price increases, price decreases and product replacements …

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The Market for Used Cars: A New Test of the Lemons Model

Emons, Winand; Sheldon, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The lemons model assumes that owners of used cars have an informational advantage over potential buyers with respect to the quality of their vehicles. Owners of bad cars will try to sell them to unsuspecting buyers while owners of good cars will hold on to theirs. Consequently, the quality of...

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Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases...

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What Triggers Early Retirement? Results from Swiss Pension Funds

Bütler, Monika; Huguenin, Olivia; Teppa, Federica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Early retirement is predominantly considered as the result of incentives set by social security and the tax system. But people seem to retire early even in the absence of such distortions, as the Swiss example demonstrates. We look for determinants of early retirement, in particular the role of...

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The Duration of Unemployment in Russia

Grogan, Louise; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … duration models for each type. It turns out that the sets of characteristics with the strongest effects on the duration are …

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The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

. The focus of the analysis is temporary subsidized jobs. By exploiting the variation in the duration of these jobs it is …

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How Binding are Legal Limits? Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Work in Spain

Güell, Maia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

-term contracts. Since then most accessions to employment have been through fixed-term contracts. This Paper studies the duration … share of fixed-term employment is the highest in Europe. We estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with … competing risks of terminating into permanent employment versus alternative states, and flexible duration dependence. We find …

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Parallel Imports and Price Controls

Grossman, Gene; Lai, Edwin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Price controls create opportunities for international arbitrage. Many have argued that such arbitrage, if tolerated, will undermine intellectual property rights and dull the incentives for investment in research-intensive industries such as pharmaceuticals. We challenge this orthodox view and...

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International Protection of Intellectual Property

Grossman, Gene; Lai, Edwin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

duration of a country’s patents that are applied with national treatment. After describing the determination of national …

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