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Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment

Pechey, Rachel; Burge, Peter; Mentzakis, Emmanouil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 104-109

discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …

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Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up

Rozema, Kyle; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that increases in cigarette taxes can induce food stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking...

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

Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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 novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …

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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...

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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size

Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...

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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations

Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...

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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...

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International Job Search: Mexicans In and Out of the US

Rendon, Silvio; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of the migration process....

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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality

Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and country-specific institutions are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703528

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