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Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales
Lindo, Jason M.; Siminski, Peter; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2014
A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in the United States, particularly because of the resulting effects on motor vehicle accidents. These benefits form the primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access...
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Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The results from the models that do not control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262815
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Medical marijuana laws, traffic fatalities, and alcohol consumption
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I. - 2011
To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety of outcomes. Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with increased use of marijuana among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282225
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Behavioural economics and drinking behaviour: preliminary results from an Irish college study
Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Wall, Patrick - 2007
This paper examines the results of single-equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption patterns among college students modelling a rich variety of covariates including gender, family and peer drinking, tenure, personality, risk perception, time preferences and age of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269252
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Validating the use of vignettes for subjective threshold scales
van Soest, Arthur; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; … - 2007
Ireland. Model comparisons using the Akaike information criterion favor a specification with response consistency and vignette …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277009
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The psychic costs of migration: Evidence from Irish return migrants
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - 2012
Within the economics literature, the psychic costs of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated in empirical papers. In this paper, we look at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol...
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Exploring the early-life causes and later-life consequences of migration through a longitudinal study on ageing
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - 2012
). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland, covering topics such as … economic circumstances and health. One of the features of Ireland's older population is the remarkably high proportion of … returned migrants, that is, former emigrants who have returned to live in Ireland. According to the TILDA data over 20 per cent …
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - 2000
paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262376
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Using a census to assess the reliability of a national household survey for migration research: the case of Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish - 2008
Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National … Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the QNHS undercounts … immigrants in Ireland, a concern exists over whether the profile of immigrants being provided is accurate. For example, QNHS …
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The immigrant earnings disadvantage across the earnings and skills distributions: the case of immigrants from the EU's new member states in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin - 2008
destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants in Ireland from the NMS using a new large-scale dataset on … employees in Ireland. In so doing, we add to the emerging strand in the literature on immigrant earnings that looks beyond … determinant of the immigrant-native earnings gap for NMS immigrants in Ireland. …
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