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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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We ran a randomized field experiment to ascertain whether a costless manipulation of the informational content (restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer screening program in Messina, Italy, affects the take-up rate....
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The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...
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We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone...
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Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...
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This paper is the first to use the method of coarsened exact matching (CEM) to estimate the impact of mood disorders on medical care costs in order to address the endogeneity of mood disorders. Models are estimated using restricted-use, general practice patient records data from New Zealand for...
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a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender …
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more perplexing since gender equality, particularly in education and employment, significantly contributes to economic … factor" and what these authors call "gender ideology". Our analysis of the "gender ideology" of Islamism and gender values is …
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs ….This article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
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Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …
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