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Utilizing two panel datasets covering the periods 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the study examines whether social rejection, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association...
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between pictorial warnings and smoking behaviour - prevalence, quitting, initiating and relapsing. The pictorial warnings were … accompanied by a reference to a smoking cessation helpline and supportive television commercials. Applying an event study … framework, we show that the reform reduced smoking rates by around 4% within the first year of the policy. The effect decreases …
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The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...
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utilization along several dimensions, but also increased risky drinking. These results are driven by the private portions of the …
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Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
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This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
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This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264784
conditions, including smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. We find that better educated … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...
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cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …, drinking, having unprotected sex, and engaging in physical fights. We further provide suggestive evidence that these results …
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