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Public Smoking Bans, Youth Access Laws, and Cigarette Sales at Vending Machines
Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
minimum legal smoking age aff ected cigarette purchases by youths. Finally, state-level smoking bans appear to have reduced … public smoking bans. The eff ectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking … bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set on cigarette sales at more than 100k vending machines that …
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One Last Puff? – Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Individuen zu rauchen sowie auf die Höhe ihres Zigarettenkonsums. Die Ergebnisse unserer … rauchen. Ferner finden sich Hinweise, dass sich striktere Rauchverbote stärker auf das Rauchverhalten auswirkten. Rauchverbote …
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Men,Women, and the Ballot – Woman Suffrage in the United States
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Woman suffrage led to the greatest enfranchisement in the history of the United States. BeforeWorldWar I, however, suffrage states remained almost exclusively confined to the American West. The reasons for this pioneering role of theWest are still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage...
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The Intriguing Nexus between Corruption and Capital Account Restrictions
Siemers, Lars; Dreher, Axel - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2005
The paper develops a theoretical model showing a mutual relationship between corruption and capital account restrictions. According to the model, higher corruption induces stricter restrictions and vice versa. We test the model using panel data for 112 countries over the period 1984–2002 and...
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Explaining Variations in Breast Cancer Screening Across European Countries
Wübker, Ansgar - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
This paper explores variations in the uptake of breast cancer screening and associated factors influencing utilisation of mammography screening among women aged 50 to 69 years in 13 European countries. We focus on the relative importance of individual (e.g. age, education, etc.) and...
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Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Mortality – Evidence from Sweden
Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health, and empirical research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether education and health are indeed causally-related, and the...
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Altruism Heterogeneity and Quality Competition Among Healthcare Providers
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...
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Life Expectancy and Mother-Baby Interventions. Evidence from A Historical Trial
Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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Ownership and Financial Performance in the German Hospital Sector
Augurzky, Boris; Engel, Dirk; Schmidt, Christoph M.; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
This paper considers the role of ownership form for the financial performance of German acute care hospitals and its development over time.We measure financial performance by a hospital-specific yearly probability of default (PD). Using a panel of hospital data, our models allow for state...
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Paid Sick Days Don’t Cause Unemployment
Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin; Earle, Alison; Heymann, Jody - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
Critics of legislation requiring employers to provide paid sick days frequently argue that these measures will lead to job loss and raise the national unemployment rate. However, this issue brief shows that the experience of 22 countries with the highest level of social and economic development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256261