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How Effective are Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products? New Evidence on Smoking Behaviour Using Australian Panel Data

Kühnle, Daniel - 2019

between pictorial warnings and smoking behaviour -- prevalence, quitting, initiating and relapsing. The pictorial warnings … were accompanied by a reference to a smoking cessation helpline and supportive television commercials. Applying an event … study framework, we show that the reform reduced smoking rates by around 4% within the first year of the policy. The effect …

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Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime

Elsner, Benjamin - 2015

cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …, drinking, having unprotected sex, and engaging in physical fights. We further provide suggestive evidence that these results …

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Returns to Education : The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...

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Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China : A Decomposition Method

Si, Yafei - 2018

In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control. Data came from the China Health and Retirement...

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Health and Health Behaviors During the Worst of Times : Evidence from the Great Recession

Tekin, Erdal - 2013

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...

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Smoking and the Business Cycle : Evidence from Germany

Kaiser, Micha - 2017

In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the effect on cigarette consumption of macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of which control for selection bias, indicate that the...

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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight : Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Dragone, Davide - 2015

This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...

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Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings : Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...

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Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health Across Three Generations

Johnston, David W. - 2011

Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in nature, and have an established hereditary component. The extent to which mental illness runs in...

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Indebted and Overweight : The Link between Weight and Household Debt

Averett, Susan L. - 2012

There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...

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