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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S.; McConnell, Margaret; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or …
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Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Trade-off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Costs
Cole, Harold; Kim, Soojin; Krueger, Dirk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …
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Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …
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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We investigate cross-hour effects in spousal labor supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by … shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labor supply by about 2 hours, and do not experience any reduction in their monthly …, husbands of treated wives respond by cutting their labor supply by about half an hour to one hour per week, according to …
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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
What happens when a previously uncovered labour market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no statistically significant effects on the intensive or...
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Income Contingent Loans for Paid Parental Leave
Chapman, Bruce; Higgins, Tim - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
In early 2008 the federal government instructed the Productivity Commission (PC) to enquire into the social and economic policy issue of paid parental leave (PPL). In their draft report, the PC (2008) has called for a taxpayer funded scheme of 18 weeks duration, despite Australian governments...
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The Retirement Expectations of Middle-Aged Individuals
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steve - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
to never retire. Retirement plans are closely related to current labor market position. Specifically, forming … expectations about the age at which one will leave the labor market appears to be easier for workers in jobs with well defined … heightened desire to remain employed. Finally, men alter their retirement plans in response to labor market shocks, while women …
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Fiscal Policy and Labor Markets at Times of Public Debt
Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper explores the empirical relevance of public debt accumulation for labor market institutions and outcomes. In … rates should influence reform incentives and labor market performance. Empirically, employment and unemployment rates are …-specific policy indicators, and labor market policy changes. While only further data and research may disentangle the force that …
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Reforms, Finance, and Current Accounts
Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the implications of labor market reforms for an open economy’s human capital investment and future … production. A stylized model shows that labor market deregulation can imply more positive current account balances if financial … markets are imperfect and labor market institutions not only distort labor allocation, but also smooth income. Empirically, in …
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