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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - CESifo - 2015

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 …

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The Long-Run Consequences of Chernobyl: Evidence on Subjective Well-Being, Mental Health and Welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - CESifo - 2014

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...

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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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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...

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Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash

McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - CESifo - 2013

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...

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Works Councils and Environmental Investment: Theory and Evidence from German Panel Data

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephan C. - CESifo - 2002

Firms may underinvest in local environmental protection even from the private viewpoint of its owners and employees, but works councils may help mitigate this problem. We show that increases in environmental investments when councils are present could be employee-led, firm-led, or jointly-led....

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African-American and White Inequality in the American South: Evidence from the 19th Century Missouri State Prison

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2007

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economic history. Moreover, a number of core findings in the literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One...

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Health, Wealth and Inequality: a Contribution to the Debate about the Relationship between Inequality and Health

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the 19th century relationship between material inequality and...

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Living Standards in Black and White: Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 – 1913

Carson, Scott A.; Maloney, Thomas N. - CESifo - 2006

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...

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Does Legalization of Sunday Alcohol Sales Increase Crime?

Lee, Jungtaek; Yörük, Baris K. - CESifo - 2014

Recently, several states repealed their laws restricting the sale of alcohol on Sundays. We investigate the effect of this policy change on crime trends in seven states using data from FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). We identify the impact of the legalization of Sunday...

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