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To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to as a "soda tax," effective January 2014. Since the tax took effect nationwide, there is no conventional control group that can be used as a baseline to estimate how the tax...
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Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...
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Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent …
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
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In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are...
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shows marked differences reflecting the narrow political spectrum in Ireland compared to radical changes in British politics …
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In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but … 2004 and 2007, the proportion of non-nationals living in Ireland almost doubled, increasing from 7.7 to 13.1 percent …. Between 2008 and 2009, Ireland experienced one of the most acute downturns in economic activity in the industrialised world …
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Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries …
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simulated from Living in Ireland survey. Our model takes the advantages of the dataset and models retirement decisions in terms … of monetary and leisure incentives, which reflect the complex welfare system in Ireland. The household extension version … household retirement behaviour in Ireland …
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as most countries are facing a rapidly ageing society. Ireland enjoys a relatively young population compared with other … replacement rate observed in Ireland using the Living in Ireland panel dataset. Since traditional empirical estimations may have …
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