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The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between alcohol advertising bans and alcohol … consumption. Most prior studies have found no effect of advertising on total alcohol consumption. A simple economic model is … over 26 years. The empirical model is a simultaneous equations system which treats both alcohol consumption and alcohol …
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Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 … of alcohol, as measured by a weighted average of the price of alcohol from beer, wine, and liquor, will serve to reduce …
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are often controversial. Economists have contributed to the evaluation of alcohol policy through empirical work on the … effects of alcohol-control measures on consumption and its consequences. Economics has also provided an accounting framework …, economists have analyzed alcohol consumption in the context of stretching the standard model of consumer choice to include …
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The purpose of this paper is to estimate demographic differentials in alcohol and illicit drug use, participation, own … Survey of Drug Abuse and links drug and alcohol prices and policies to the individual records. The size of this data set … to reduce substance abuse have been oriented towards increasing the price of alcohol and illicit drugs. Little, however …
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This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price … alcohol demand elasticities--estimates obtained from this source vary drastically and unpredictably. As an alternative …, researchers often use beer taxes to proxy for alcohol prices. While the estimated beer taxes elasticities are more stable, there …
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Many U.S.-born descendants of Mexican immigrants do not identify as Mexican or Hispanic in response to the Hispanic origin question asked in the Census and other government surveys. Analyzing microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2001-2019 American Community Surveys, we show that the age...
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We report on the wellbeing of the young in 31 Ex-Soviet Republics located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people which characterizes Western Europe and English-speaking advanced economies. The mental...
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Younger entrepreneurs are disadvantaged by traditional loan underwriting, which relies heavily on personal credit scores. With data from three fintech companies, we show that incorporating timely information about ability to repay from business checking account statements particularly improves...
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For birth cohorts 1935-44, 1945-62, and 1964-74, we estimate the contribution of education; permanent heterogeneity in wage rates, employment, and hours; labor market shocks; spouse characteristics and shocks; nonlabor income shocks; and marital histories to the age profiles of the variance of...
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Great achievements in knowledge are produced by older innovators today than they were a century ago. Using data on Nobel Prize winners and great inventors, I find that the age at which noted innovations are produced has increased by approximately 6 years over the 20th Century. This trend is...
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