We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …

of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …

This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis …

rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the …

With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis …

measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …