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Do-it-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020
Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, little is known about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended liberalization of a CBD-based product (light cannabis) that occurred in Italy in 2017. Using...
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Vaccines at Work
Hoffmann, Manuel - 2020
Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador,...
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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices : Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other countries) to an "internal" (based on comparable domestic products) reference price system.We find that...
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Childhood Vaccinations and Demographic Transition : Long-Term Evidence from India
Nandi, Arindam; Summan, Amit; Ngô, D.; Bloom, David E. - 2022
remain untested. In this study, we examine the demographic effects of India’s national childhood vaccination program (the … preference data of 625,000 adult women from the National Family Health Survey of India 2015–2016. We include women who were born …
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Early Life Access to Polio Vaccines and Declining Disability Rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio …-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus …
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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances : A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users
Moschion, Julie - 2017
longitudinal evidence that a drop in life satisfaction tends to precede the use of illegal/street drugs.We also find that the abuse … current levels of life satisfaction. This provides empirical support for the utility misprediction model. Further, we find … that the decrease in life satisfaction following the consumption of illegal/street drugs persists 6 months to a year after …
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The Gendered Crisis : Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India During Covid-19
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2023
urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during …
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The Relationship between Status and Happiness : Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India
Van Landeghem, Bert - 2017
observational data identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste …
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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
Nelen, Annemarie - 2011
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a hard physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
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Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Firsin, Oleg - 2023
This paper unpacks the effects of social networks on monthly county-level COVID19 vaccinations in the US. To parse out short-term community-level externalities where people help each other overcome immediate access barriers, from learning spillovers regarding vaccine efficacy that naturally take...
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