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malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments … and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of …
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of the pandemic. We match information on the allocation of funds across Italian municipalities with data tracking …
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information. Lock-downs entail a political cost that helps explain why democracies may adopt epidemiologically suboptimal policies …
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effects. Findings suggest that consumers demand information from experts according to the trade-offs they face when making …
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We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan … in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure around birth leads to lower life-time educational attainment and …
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prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these … sectors by reducing physical capacity. This study identifies the impact of malaria on worker earnings, labor supply, and daily … malaria testing and treatment.The results indicate a significant and substantial intent to treat effect of the intervention …
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, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate …
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We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence may be due to true state dependence but may also reflect individual unobserved heterogeneity. We distinguish between the two by using semi-parametric dynamic panel data methods...
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We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that …
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We document considerable within-person (over time) variation in diet quality that is not fully explained by responses to fluctuations in the economic environment. We propose a two-selves model that provides a structural interpretation to this variation, in which food choices are a compromise...
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