Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,065
Cover Image
To 'Vape' or Smoke? A Discrete Choice Experiment among Adult Smokers
Marti, Joachim; Buckell, John; Maclean, J. Catherine; … - 2017
A growing share of the United States population uses e-cigarettes. In response, policymakers are considering regulating e-cigarettes, or have already done so, due to concerns regarding e-cigarettes' public health impact. However, there is currently little population-based evidence to inform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653218
Cover Image
The effects of smoking ban regulations on individual smoking rates
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Wilkins, Roger - 2005
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 is the effect of second hand smoke on non-smokers. From...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267698
Cover Image
The Effects of Smoking Ban Regulations on Individual Smoking Rates
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Wilkins, Roger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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 is the effect of second hand smoke on non-smokers. From...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763895
Cover Image
Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497804
Cover Image
Native-immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the second generation: The role of gender and ethnicity
Baert, Stijn; Heiland, Frank; Korenman, Sanders - 2014
We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481647
Cover Image
Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
Pham, Thong Le; Kooreman, Peter; Koning, Ruud H.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more so for boys than for girls. A higher education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024607
Cover Image
Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation
Bratti, Massimiliano; Miranda, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we propose an estimator for models in which an endogenous dichotomous treatment affects a count outcome in the presence of either sample selection or endogenous participation using maximum simulated likelihood. We allow for the treatment to have an effect on both the sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764582
Cover Image
The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Lau, Daniel; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence. Our contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889998
Cover Image
Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income
Fernández-Val, Iván; Savchenko, Yevgeniya; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of income on an individual's subjective self-assessment of own health. We employ … recently developed methods in the non linear panel data literature to account for the endogeneity of income and the presence of … relationship between income and health responses. Moreover, the evidence suggests that the variation in the individual specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959742
Cover Image
Non-pecuniary returns to higher education: the effect on smoking intensity in the UK
Miranda, Alfonso; Bratti, Massimiliano - 2006
In this paper we investigate whether higher education (HE) produces non-pecuniary returns via a reduction in the consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, the paper focuses on studying the smoking intensity of British individuals. We use data on current smokers from the 1970...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267354