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Greek myth or fact? : the role of Greek houses in alcohol and drug violations on American campuses

Raghav, Manu; Diette, Timothy M. - 2022 - This version: March 1, 2022

, on the instances of liquor and drug law violations on campuses, as measured by the number of arrests for liquor and drug … arrests for drug law violations. A larger percentage of students in sororities (but not the percentage of students in …

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Identifying the general equilibrium effects of narcotics enforcement

Porreca, Zachary - 2024

described as America's largest open air drug market. Beginning in 2018, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office and the … Philadelphia Police Department engaged in an ambitious effort to shut down the drug market in Philadelphia's Kensington … observed in other work, I observe that the initiative led to reductions in traffic flows to other regional drug markets and …

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Religiosity, smoking and other risky behaviors

Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2022

While under communism the identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to risky behaviors like smoking, drinking, and...

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Does expanding access to cannabis affect traffic crashes? : county-level evidence from recreational marijuana dispensary sales in Colorado

Gunadi, Christian - 2021

This article examines the effect of recreational cannabis dispensary sales on traffic crashes by employing difference-in-differences model that exploits the variation in the timing of recreational marijuana dispensary entry across counties within Colorado. Using marijuana-related hospital...

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The perceived social rejection of sexual minorities : substance use and unprotected sexual intercourse

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

This study presents associations between the perceived social rejection of sexual minorities and tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis consumption and unprotected sexual intercourse in the capital of Greece, Athens. This is the first Greek study to evaluate the concept of the minority stress theory on...

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Early cannabis use and school to work transition of young men

Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...

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Religiosity, smoking and other addictive behaviors

Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2021

While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and...

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Safety at work and immigration

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Martín Bassols, Nicolau; … - 2020

This paper examines the effect of immigration on workplace safety, a new and previously unexplored outcome in the literature. We use a novel administrative dataset of the universe of workplace accidents reported in Spain from 2003 to 2015 and follow an IV strategy based on the distribution of...

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Italian workers at risk during the Covid-19 epidemic

Barbieri, Teresa; Basso, Gaetano; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020 - This version: April12,2020

We analyse the content of Italian occupations operating in about 600 sectors with a focus on the dimensions that expose workers to contagion risks during the COVID-19 epidemics. To do so we leverage extremely detailed and granular information from ICP, the Italian equivalent of O*Net. We find...

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Works councils and workplace health promotion in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Smith, Stephen C. - 2019

From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis confirms that the incidence of a works council is...

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