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This paper investigates the impact of a 'free drug program' on the market equilibrium of drugs. We introduce a screening model of the hard drug market in which dealers use payment and punishment options to screen between high and low risk users. We show that, if a free drug program selects...
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This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
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This paper studies the effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on human well-being. Using individual-level panel data from a representative sample of Australian households, I estimate the intake of fruit and vegetables to have positive and statistically significant impacts on a wide range of...
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A fundamental question in pharmaceutical marketing management is: How does the effectiveness of detailing change when additional information on drugs is revealed via patients' experiences during the product lifecycle? To address this question, we develop a model of detailing and prescribing...
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are negatively associated with the probability that those individuals will consider suicide many years after graduation. …
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This study is the first attempt to empirically examine the determinants of suicides in the case of Turkey using the time-series data for the period 1974-2007. This research proposes that the suicides in Turkey are related to some economic and social factors and they exhibit a dynamic...
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suicide rate and some of the demographic and other economic variates. Further, we use ARDL model to find out the association … between suicide and some economic variables. We find that inflation, per capita real GDP and industrial growth encourages the …
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This paper examines the factors affecting suicide in 13 European OECD countries from a socio-economic perspective. We … increasing impact of divorce rates and a decreasing effect of per capita real GDP on suicide are confirmed in 9 countries … rates, the results reveal that its increase leads to a decrease in suicide rates in four countries and a rise in suicide …
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The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of … corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-2004. Our results show that suicide …
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The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of … corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-1999. Our results indicate suicide …
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