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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
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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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes : the case of over-the-counter weight loss products
Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
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Women, children and patience : experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …-oriented choices of households. -- Time discounting ; gender ; children ; experiment ; India …
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India's calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of calorie purchases
Hazarika, Gautam; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - 2020
, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …
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Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018
. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …
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Evaluating and pricing health insurance in lower-income countries : a field experiment in India
Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - 2024
trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, called RSBY. We …
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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
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Can policy interact with culture? : minimum wage and the quality of labor relations
Aghion, Philippe (contributor); Algan, Yann (contributor);  … - 2008
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...
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Is crime contagious?
Ludwig, Jens (contributor); Kling, Jeffrey R. (contributor) - 2006
Understanding whether criminal behavior is "contagious" is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...
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