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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269601
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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes: The case of over-the-counter weight loss products
Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293141
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Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War
Lindo, Jason M.; Padilla-Romo, María - 2015
This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized crime in which law-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of the criminal organization, on community violence in the context of Mexico's drug war. Newly available historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288185
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Guns, drugs and juvenile crime : evidence from a panel of siblings and twins
Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2003
inhalants or other drugs is an increase in the propensity to commit crime by 7 and 6 percentage points, respectively. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261637
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The Economics behind the Epidemic: Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nistico, Roberto - 2019
We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180065
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Side Effects of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2020
Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322645
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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users
Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017
longitudinal evidence that a drop in life satisfaction tends to precede the use of illegal/street drugs. We also find that the … abuse of alcohol, the daily use of cannabis and the weekly use of illegal/street drugs in the past 6 months relate to lower … that the decrease in life satisfaction following the consumption of illegal/street drugs persists 6 months to a year after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787031
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Living on the edge: Youth entry, career and exit in drug-selling gangs
Carvalho, Leandro; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2013
of drugs join the gang at younger ages. Wages within the gang do not depend on education, but are increasing with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291376