This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who … are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially. Grade improvements are driven by younger students …

(MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey … the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is minor and often insignificant. However, we also show that … granting legal access to cigarettes and tobacco products at the MLTPA leads to an increase in several indicators of smoking …

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. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …

. When only skilled workers are mobile, there is a sub-optimal shift from taxes to fees and the number of students is too low …

This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes … (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate transparency, access to external capital and limited liability. We estimate …

produces many traded and non-traded goods, uses income taxes and distributes the tax receipts equally to all individuals. The …