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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who … are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially. Grade improvements are driven by younger students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315545
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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - CESifo - 2015
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who … are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially. Grade improvements are driven by younger students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257664
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The Long-Run Consequences of Chernobyl: Evidence on Subjective Well-Being, Mental Health and Welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790170
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315560
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082833
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315555
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167139
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Using Fees to Reduce Bed-Blocking : A Game between Hospitals and Care Providers
Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2021
The Coordination Reform was introduced in Norway in 2012 including a fee for bed-blocking in hospitals. To study this, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform does not necessarily lead to less bed-blocking as this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315481
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Optimal Monitoring to Implement Clean Technologies when Pollution is Random
Macho-Stadler, Ines; Pérez-Castrillo, David - 2021
We analyze a model where firms chose a production technology which, together with some random event, determines the final emission level. We consider the coexistence of two alternative technologies: a "clean" technology, and a "dirty" technology. The environmental regulation is based on taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317105
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Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - CESifo - 2013
How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877960