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The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...
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The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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-whole (full) compensation and mean and median work incomes. Given that consumption uncertainty associated with compensation …
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Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
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In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...
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Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their …
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tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a …
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Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we … estimate long run elasticities of premia to insurers' direct cost (payouts plus defense costs), allowing for lags of up to four … a roughly 50% higher ratio of premia to direct costs even though, in competitive markets, a damages cap should affect …
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We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well-suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead...
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Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...
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