We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …

59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10%. -- Demand …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage effects, and positive permanent effects. Estimation results based on our …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public …

demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber …

This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water … groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. -- fertilizer agrichemicals ; water pollutants ; child …

estimate the model with the use of data from Pakistan villages. Empirical results are consistent with the economic arguments …

Islamist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere have sought to remove females from public life. This paper uses … data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement and the Global Terrorism Database to examine the impact of the …