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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - CESifo - 2009
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
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Smoking and Social Interaction
Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - CESifo - 2007
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765665
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - CESifo - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747213
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167139
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - CESifo - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
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Demand Patterns for Treatment Insurance in Norway
Aarbu, Karl Ove - CESifo - 2010
In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care market. These health care services are obtained normally...
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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for … circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues …
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Do Labor Market Institutions Influence Suicide Mortality? An International Panel Data Analysis
Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2014
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 – 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795344
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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide
Sascha O, Becker; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2015
In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about … afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … suicide. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity …
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