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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products
Cawley, John; Avery, Rosemary; Eisenberg, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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 …
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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
of a bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising … reconcile the conflicting evidence on the effect of negative vs. positive advertising, as the average impact may wash out when …
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Sociability and the Timing of First Marriage
Heizler (Cohen), Odelia; Yacouel, Nira; Kimhi, Ayal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is expected to marry earlier than an otherwise similar...
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Evidence of Added Worker Effect from the 2008 Economic Crisis
Ayhan, Sinem H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper contributes to the research on interdependencies in spousal labor supply by analyzing labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses ("added worker effect"). It empirically tests the hypothesis of added worker effect relying on a case study on Turkey during the...
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The Relation between Maternal Work Hours and Cognitive Outcomes of Young School-Aged Children
Künn-Nelen, Annemarie; de Grip, Andries; Fouarge, Didier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper is the first that analyzes the relation between maternal work hours and the cognitive outcomes of young school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the...
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Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels
FitzRoy, Felix; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of...
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The Risk of Divorce and Household Saving Behavior
Gonzalez, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...
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Mothers, Fathers and Children after Divorce: The Role of Institutions
Del Boca, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
In recent years the increase in the divorce rate in many advanced countries and the predominance of female-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between divorce and the welfare of mothers and children. In this paper I will review a small body of economic...
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayioglu; Koc, Ismet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...
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Aggregation without the Aggravation? Nonparametric Analysis of the Representative Consumer
Cherchye, Laurens; Crawford, Ian; De Rock, Bram; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily...
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