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We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge...
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Most demand -- especially labor demand -- is derived from the demand for some other product. This note demonstrates … case of derived demand. -- derived demand ; indirect demand ; consumers's surplus ; economic rent …
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59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10%. -- Demand …
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Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research … emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich quasi-experiment reveals that it decreased summertime ozone …
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provides the first credible evidence on the demand for child care characteristics in the market for home-based care. Using a …
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Many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend center-based child care programs that are of low quality. This paper examines the extent to which teacher qualifications – widely considered important inputs to classroom quality - are valued by providers during the hiring process. To do so, we...
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the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a … difference-in-difference-in-differences model which exploits the seasonality in red meat consumption and the heterogeneity in … with higher levels of education correctly reduced red meat consumption and over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …
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productivity and demand shocks have distinct implications for the firms' output and price adjustments. Using panel data on prices … productivity and demand for the labor market and the dispersions of prices and labor productivity. We further analyze the impact of … shocks to the first and second moments of idiosyncratic risk on macroeconomic outcomes. An increase in demand uncertainty …
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. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior …
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