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Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2001
This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, alcohol use, and drinking problems using individual-level data from the 1987-1999 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We confirm the procyclical variation in overall drinking identified in previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470207
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Regression Kink Design : Theory and Practice
Card, David - 2016
unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455899
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Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
Card, David - 2012
We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460096
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Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Attempts Among Youth - Correlation or Causation?
Chatterji, Pinka - 2003
This study uses the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) to explore the causal relationship between alcohol abuse (binge drinking and clinically defined alcohol use disorders) and suicide attempts among youth. We use an empirical approach that allows one to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469060
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Job Loss : Eat, drink and try to be merry?
Deb, Partha - 2009
improve upon extant literature by using: exogenously determined business closings, a sophisticated estimation approach (finite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463528
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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Chatterji, Pinka - 2006
behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466136
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Employment, Unemployment, and Problem Drinking
Mullahy, John - 1995
unemployment. The sample of approximately 15,000 observations is drawn from the 1988 Alcohol Survey of the National Health … when using OLS estimation methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473763
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Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Advertising Bans
Saffer, Henry - 2000
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 provided which explains these prior results. The data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470992
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The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers
Markowitz, Sara - 2000
violent behaviors as measured by physical fighting, carrying a gun, or carrying other types of weapons. Simple OLS estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471276
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Are Alcohol Excise Taxes Good For Us? Short and Long-Term Effects on Mortality Rates
Cook, Philip J. - 2005
Regression results from a 30-year panel of the state-level data indicate that changes in alcohol-excise taxes cause a reduction in drinking and lower all-cause mortality in the short run. But those results do not fully capture the long-term mortality effects of a permanent change in drinking...
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