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Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities : The Case of Fatal Road Crashes

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2022

In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not...

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Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking

Ahammer, Alexander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Halla, Martin; … - 2021

Low minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs), as prevalent in many European countries, are severely understudied. We use rich survey and administrative data to estimate the impact of the Austrian MLDA of 16 on teenage drinking behavior and morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal...

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

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles DH; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...

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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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Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemics: Biodiversity Conservation and Confinement Policies

Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle; Fabbri, Giorgio; Schubert, … - 2020

. The planner can intervene in the economic and epidemiological dynamics in two ways: ﬁrst (prevention), by deciding to … mitigate the pandemics are also societies doing a lot of prevention. After calibrating the model with Covid-19 pandemic data we … compare the miti-gation eﬀorts predicted by the model with those of the recent literature and we study the optimal prevention …

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The Long-Run Consequences of Chernobyl: Evidence on Subjective Well-Being, Mental Health and Welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...

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Increased instruction time and stress-related health problems among school children

Marcus, Jan; Reif, Simon; Wuppermann, Amelie C.; … - 2019

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its...

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School Tracking and Mental Health

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2019

We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16. The reform was implemented gradually across Finnish municipalities between 1972 and 1977. We use...

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Should Individuals Choose Their Own Incentives? Evidence from a Mindfulness Meditation Intervention

Woerner, Andrej; Romagnoli, Giorgia; Probst, Birgit M.; … - 2021

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effects of letting people choose from a menu of increasingly challenging incentive schemes. We derive the conditions under which a policy maker profits from leaving the choice to the individuals by leveraging their private information...

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Tutoring in (Online) Higher Education: Experimental Evidence

Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2022

Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …

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