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Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment
Pechey, Rachel; Burge, Peter; Mentzakis, Emmanouil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 104-109
discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …
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Product differentiation and firm size distribution: an application to carbonated soft drinks
Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Using brand-level retail data, the firm size distribution in carbonated soft drinks is shown to be an outcome of the degree to which firms have placed brands effectively (store coverage) across vertical (flavour, packaging, diet attributes) segments of the market. Regularity of the firm size...
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Taxes, cigarette consumption, and smoking intensity: reply
Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit NHANES data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover, using panel data from the Coronary Artery Risk...
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L'enquête du Crédoc sur les comportements alimentaires des français
Lahlou, Saadi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1990
Ces résultats sont tirés de travaux réalisés au Crédoc (Centre de Recherche pour l'Etude et l'Observation des Conditions de Vie), dans le département "Prospective de la Consommation", par Joèlle Maffre, François Yvon, Marie-Paule Bayol, Frédéric Oble, avec la participation de Isabelle...
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Government spending shocks, wealth effects and distortionary taxes
Cloyne, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
including output, consumption and the real wage. I find that the role of the wealth effect on labor supply is small and that …
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Let’s Be Straight Up about the Alcohol Industry
eSocialSciences; PLoS Medicine Editors - 2011
Alcohol industry is a massive and growing US$150 billion global business—have not yet received adequate prominence in … medical journals. Indeed, attention to and scientific research on the alcohol industry have not kept pace with the industryâ …
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Health Education
Dube, Nandini - eSocialSciences - 2012
There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are often poorly suited to the health needs of the populations they serve. All such problems are taken...
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Unemployment, measured and perceived decline of economic resources: Contrasting three measures of recessionary hardships and their implications for adopting negative health behavio...
Kalousova, Lucie; Burgard, Sarah A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 106 (2014) C, pp. 28-34
adopt new negative health behaviors, specifically cigarette smoking, harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption, or marijuana … consumption. We find that, net of controls and the other two recessionary hardships, unemployment experience was associated with …
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Price Elasticity Estimates for Tobacco and Other Addictive Goods in India
John, Rijo - eSocialSciences - 2005
addictive goods such as pan and alcohol respond to changes in prices. [IGIDR WP 2005-003]. …
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The effect of belonging to an alcohol-proscribing religious group on the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and mortality
Hayward, R. David; Krause, Neal - In: Social Science & Medicine 101 (2014) C, pp. 1-8
indicated that, consistent with previous research, moderate alcohol consumption (two drinks or fewer per day on average) was … related with lower mortality compared with both total abstention from alcohol and heavy consumption (more than two drinks per …The purpose of this study was to examine whether belonging to a religious group that proscribes alcohol use moderated …
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