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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...
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interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by … tobacco are complements. Hence, we conclude that successful anti-smoking policies will not result in the unintended side …
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positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …
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Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social interactions make consumption sticky. We use detailed panel data from the Add Health survey to examine...
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This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation … has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans … individual smoking behaviour over the period 2001 to 2003 during which separate smoking ban initiatives in Queensland, Victoria …
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This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian … twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing of starting smoking versus that of … education reduces the duration of smoking with 9 months but has no effect on the decision to start smoking. …
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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...
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-in-difference methodology, we find a reduction in drinking and smoking for 16 year olds. These results are robust to the inclusion of state …
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of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … evidence of the significant effects of the three behavioral risk factors on the individual's SAHS, beyond and above effects of …
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of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … evidence of the significant effects of the three behavioral risk factors on the individual's SAHS, beyond and above effects of …
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