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We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...

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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

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a comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health … experiment in Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either …

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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015

endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …

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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany

Scheubel, Beatrice; Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009

situation as well as individual health and other risk factors. However, a fundamental opposition to reforms of the welfare state …

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Statures, BMIs, and Weight: A Reassessment

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2013

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

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Measurement of Child Health: Maternal Response Bias.

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Cigarette Demand, Health Scares and Education in Turkey.

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Acess to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - CESifo - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

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