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Anti-smoking policies and smoker well-being: Evidence from Britain
Leicester, Andrew; Levell, Peter - 2013
Anti-smoking policies can in theory make smokers better off, by helping smokers with time-inconsistent preferences … tobacco excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places. We use a difference-in-differences approach to compare the effects … on well-being for smokers and non-smokers. Smoking behaviour is likely to be influenced by policy interventions, leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331030
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Anti-smoking policies and smoker well-being: evidence from Britain.
Leicester, Andrew; Levell, Peter - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2013
Anti-smoking policies can in theory make smokers better off, by helping smokers with time-inconsistent preferences … tobacco excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places. We use a difference-in-differences approach to compare the effects … on well-being for smokers and non-smokers. Smoking behaviour is likely to be influenced by policy interventions, leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671452
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For better or worse? Subjective expectations and cost-benefit trade-offs in health behavior
Conti, Gabriella; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2023
We provide a framework to disentangle the role of preferences and beliefs in health behavior, and we apply it to compliance behavior during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using rich data on subjective expectations collected during the spring 2020 lockdown in the UK, we estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480467
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Labour supply: a review of alternative approaches
Blundell, Richard; MaCurdy, Thomas - 1998
the lifecycle model. At the end of each of the four broad reviews, we summarize a selection of the recent empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330345
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Labour supply: a review of alternative approaches
Blundell, Richard; MaCurdy, Thomas - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 1998
the lifecycle model. At the end of each of the four broad reviews, we summarize a selection of the recent empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005727650
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Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methjods and results from the NCDS
Blundell, Richard W.; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara - 2003
Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatment and sequential multiple treatments with and without heterogeneous returns. The sensitivity of the estimates once applied to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292932
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Social experiments and instrumental variables with duration outcomes
Abbring, Jaap; Berg, Gerard van den - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005
This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037512
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Individual effects and dynamics in count data models
Blundell, Richard; Griffith, Rachel; Windmeijer, Frank - 1999
In this paper we examine the panel data estimation of dynamic models for count data that include correlated fixed effects and predetermined variables.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330320
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Two-part multiple spell models for health care demand
Silva, Joao M.C. Santos; Windmeijer, Frank - 1999
The demand for certain types of health care services depends on decisions of both the individual and the health care provider. This paper studies the conditions under which it is possible to separately identify the parameters driving the two decision processes using only count data on the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330347
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Investment, R&D and financial constraints in Britain and Germany
Bond, Steve; Harhoff, Dietmar; Reenen, John Van - 1999
This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in two countries between 1985 and 1994. For German firms, cash flow is not informative in simple econometric models of fixed investment or R&D. In identical pecifications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330348