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smoking than informational campaigns that emphasize future health costs. However, youth taxes would have to be quite high to …This paper presents a model of smoking choice in which rationality is bounded by limitations in intertemporal … computational abilities. The model is applied to the youth decision to initiate smoking. Lifetime smoking paths of representative …
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, consumers of a product receive utility from other consumer¡¯s consumption of a domestic good. We show that resistance to change …
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A number of studies have indicated that peer smoking is a highly influential factor in a young person's decision to …. This paper develops an econometric model of youth smoking which incorporates both peer effects and selection effects, and …
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consumption. A broad literature has examined household economies of scale. Since food is a private good, it might be expected that … both inputs to food production. Larger households can achieve the same level of consumption at lower expenditure by … Russia, I estimate the effect of changing household size on food expenditures and food-related time. The estimates indicate …
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„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster...
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results indicate that the commonly used measures of well-being - labour market situation, health, housing conditions and …
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results indicate that the commonly used measures of well-being - labour market situation, health, housing conditions and …
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This paper estimates a simultaneous model of moderate and problem drinking, smoking, and wages using a random sample of … employed Canadian men. The results indicate that sample selection into alcohol and tobacco use is not negligible. With all else … abstention from drinking, whereas smoking is associated with lower wages. Allowing for feedback from wages to substance use is …
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profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities …
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