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E-cigarette licensure laws (ELLs) require retailers to obtain a state license to sell e-cigarettes over the counter. This study is the first to comprehensively explore the effect of ELL adoption on youth and adult tobacco product use. Using data from the State Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)...
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There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …
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fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity … multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater …
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We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self …-reported and biomarker measures of tobacco use, to examine the effects of state-level tobacco 21 (T21) laws on smoking and vaping …. T21 laws reduce self-reported cigarette smoking among 18-to-20 year olds, concentrated in males. Initial non-users who …
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Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal … endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational …
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county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide …
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when the global burden of mental health illness is also on the rise. We examine the causal impact of early life exposure to … warfare on long-term mental health, using novel data on the amount of bombs dropped in German cities by Allied Air Forces … significantly worse mental health later in life when they are between ages late 50s and 70s. Specifically, an increase of one …
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Understanding cognitive health, its decline, and the investments that shape its age profile in later life are important … in an aging society, and yet, estimating the cognitive health production function is complicated by non-random mortality … and sample attrition. I study this dynamic selection problem in the context of education, race, and cigarette smoking …
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We study the effect of community access to behavioral health (mental health and substance use disorders) treatment on …-duty assaults and county-level data on the number of treatment centers within the community that offer behavioral health treatment … access to treatment on behavioral health extend to the work environment of police officers …
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Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take-up remains puzzlingly low, even among educated populations with healthcare access. We study a barrier to hormonal contraceptive uptake that has not been causally tested: the...
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