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The economics of credence goods: on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009

determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation … higher efficiency as long as liability is violated. …

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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - 2005

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...

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Limited self-control, obesity and the loss of happiness

Stutzer, Alois - 2007

Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of food might well have overstrained will power and...

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Evidence of unequal treatment in hiring against obese applicants: a field experiment

Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2007

This study presents evidence of recruitment discrimination against obese individuals in Sweden by sending fictitious applications to real job openings. Otherwise identical applications were randomly assigned a portrait photograph of an obese or a normalweight job applicant. Applications with an...

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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income

Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008

This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...

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Minimizing bias in selection on observables estimators when unconfoundness fails

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2008

We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case of selection on unobservables. We then propose a new minimum biased estimator of the average treatment effect. We assess the finite sample performance of our estimator using...

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School nutrition programs and the incidence of childhood obesity

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty; Husain, Muna - 2008

In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention. Using panel data on over 13,500 primary school students, we assess the relationship between SBP and NSLP participation and (relatively)...

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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective

Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008

We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...

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Automatically activated stereotypes and differential treatment against the obese in hiring

Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008

This study provides empirical support for automatically activated associations inducing unequal treatment against the obese among recruiters in a real-life hiring situation. A field experiment on differential treatment against obese job applicants in hiring is combined with a measure of...

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Fat and out in Salerno and Province: adolescent obesity and early school leaving in Southern Italy

Barone, Adriana; O'Higgins, Niall - 2009

In this paper, we focus on the causes and consequences of adolescent obesity from an economic perspective. The paper examines the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school leaving amongst adolescents in the province of Salerno in Southern Italy. A simple human capital...

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