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Hopping on the Methadone Bus
Lippert, Steffen; Schumacher, Christoph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of a 'free drug program' on the market equilibrium of drugs. We introduce a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836044
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Maternal prenatal substance use and behavior problems among children in the U.S.
Sen, Bisakha; Swaminathan, Shailender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … Longitudinal Survey (CNLSY). Specifically, we investigate whether prenatal cigarette use and alcohol-use affect children’s behavior … are used to minimize bias from confounding factors. Our results suggest that the relationship between prenatal smoking and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490101
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Do people invest in local public goods with long-term benefits: Experimental evidence from a shanty town in Peru
De Hoop, Thomas; Van Kempen, Luuk; Fort, Ricardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper discusses voluntary contributions to health education in a shanty town in Peru, using a new experimental setup to identify voluntary contributions to local public goods. The experiment enables individuals to contribute to a health education meeting facilitated by an NGO, which they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680318
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Trafficking in drugs and economic theory
Pandey, S.S.D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
operate in disequilibrium,search and information costs become very important.Trafficking in drugs taken as case, to explore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422026
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Accomplishing Human Rights Justice in the context of Assets Confiscation: An Evaluation of the United Kingdom Drug Laws Enforcement
Kingston, Kato Gogo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
the waves of illicit drugs in the country. There is controversy over the ways by which the properties of the drug …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836733
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Economía de guerra y narcotráfico
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In the analysis of the economic motivation of the war, the financial evaluation around resourcing stands; In Colombia has made ​​considerable effort to understand and quantify the finances of the guerrillas. If you remove a small fraction of funding from public funds, it can be said that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112610
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The Effects of Drug Enforcement on Violence in Colombia 1999-2010: A Spatial Econometric Approach
Botero Degiovanni, Hernan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper paper, I use Mejia and Restrepo's(2011d} strategy to disentangle the causal relationship between drug enforcement and violence. To test this relationship, I use information on Colombian municipalities during the period 1999-2010. Due to technological reasons related to the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112731
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A study on Global Human-Immunodeficiency Virus and its Effect in Bangladesh
Islam, Jamal; Mohajan, Haradhan; Moolio, Pahlaj; Peter, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper deals with global Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and situation of this disease in Bangladesh. The disease is alarming in poorer areas as like Africa, Latin America, Caribbean islands and some parts of Asia. This paper aware the people who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113941
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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114476
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VIH/Aids and alcohol: re-examination of the relation from african data
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article re-examines the relationship alcohol and VIH/Aids, while resorting to another methodological approach that … utilized by Fisher et al., (2007) and Kalichman et al. (2007). We confirm a direct relation of alcohol to the AIDS. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110230