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The Energy-Policy Efficiency Gap: Was There Ever Support for Gasoline Taxes?
Knittel, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
From 1864 to 1972, the real price of oil fell by, on average, over one percent per year. This trend dramatically broke when prices for crude increased by over 650 percent from 1972 to 1980. Policy makers adopted several policies designed to keep oil prices in check and reduce consumption....
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Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities
Kaestner, Robert; Yarnoff, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We examine whether adult alcohol consumption and traffic fatalities are associated with the legal drinking environment when a person was between the ages of 18 and 20. We find that moving from an environment in which a person was never allowed to drink legally to one in which a person could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627112
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However, little is known about the effect of PE on child weight. This...
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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Stith, Sarah S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...
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Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US
Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
that under a "business as usual" scenario climate change will lead to an increase in the overall US annual mortality rate … zero, although there is evidence of statistically significant increases in mortality rates for some subpopulations … century. It seems reasonable to assume that the mortality impacts would be larger without the increased energy consumption …
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A Tale of Repetition: Lessons from Florida Restaurant Inspections
Lee, Jungmin; Jin, Ginger Zhe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We examine the role of repetition in government regulation. Using Florida restaurant inspection data from 2003 to 2010, we find that inspectors new to the inspected restaurant report 12.7-17.5% more violations than the second visit of a repeat inspector. This effect is even more pronounced if...
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Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning
Walsh, Randall Phillip; Shertzer, Allison; Twinam, Tate - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Zoning has been cited as a discriminatory policy tool by critics, who argue that ordinances are used to deter the entry of minority residents into majority neighborhoods through density restrictions (exclusionary zoning) and locate manufacturing activity in minority neighborhoods (environmental...
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Inspection Technology, Detection and Compliance: Evidence from Florida Restaurant Inspections
Lee, Jungmin; Jin, Ginger Zhe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this article, we show that a small innovation in inspection technology can make substantial differences in inspection outcomes. For restaurant hygiene inspections, the state of Florida has introduced a handheld electronic device, the portable digital assistant (PDA), which reminds inspectors...
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The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
Viscusi, W Kip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias yield bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are higher for labor market studies using the more recent Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) data. These results are borne out by the...
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Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
The view that intergenerational distributive justice and efficiency should be treated separately is familiar, yet controversial. This article elaborates the often-implicit justifications for separate treatment and provides a more express statement of how and when such treatment is appropriate....
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