We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in … findings. First, unlike previous studies that focus on smoking bans in public places, we find robust evidence that WSBs …

We analyze the consequences of activism in a regulated industry where the regulator has been captured by the industry … regulators and their actions generate dead-weight costs. Yet we find that activism may increase social welfare because it …

volunteer labour for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases … in activism stems from a fall in their motivation, following parties relying less upon them. This reduces procedural …

influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …