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We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
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Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms …
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the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 … out of 105 counties in Kansas voted to legalize the sale of alcohol to the general public for on-premises consumption. We … legalizing the sale of alcohol to the general public for on-premises consumption is associated with an 11 percent increase in …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …
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In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do … endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may provide a biased picture of the impact of alcohol consumption on …
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effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and other drugs. We find that … being a PK significantly reduces alcohol use. This effect comes exclusively from a reduction in the probability of any … alcohol use and this increased abstinence among children of the clergy persists into adulthood. These results are consistent …
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alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological … effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by expectations, as we compare behaviors of three groups of subjects …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but …
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primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that … policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement … alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on …
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Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state … hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …-related hospitalizations. Applying difference-in-differences methods, we find that the policy change reduces alcohol-related hospitalizations …
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