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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … results underscore the severe harm that alcohol can cause and point towards a role for policy measures that target the …

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None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2021

Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....

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The Cost of Binge Drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 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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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …

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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...

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Moral Nimby-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2018

The growing demand for plasma, especially for the manufacture of therapeutic products, creates an urgent need for a careful discussion on the relative merits of different procurement and allocation systems in a way that addresses the increasing demand while abiding by the prevailing moral values...

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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood

Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024

This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...

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Subsidizing Health-Conscious Behavior Now or Later

Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila; Schwager, Robert - 2016

In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased choice. These rates differ because of two...

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Optimal Epidemic Suppression under an ICU Constraint

Miclo, Laurent; Spiro, Daniel; Weibull, Jörgen - 2020

society should quickly lock down (a discontinuity). After the lockdown regulation should gradually be lifted, holding the rate … phase, regulation is lifted. We call this strategy “filling the box”. …

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Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19

Isphording, Ingo E.; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of Covid-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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