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The Impact of State Tobacco Control Spending on High School Student Vaping
Tauras, John A.; Diaz, Megan; Schillo, Barbara; … - 2022
The rapid rise in e-cigarette use rates among high school students in the United States is a significant source of … on the demand for vaping products by high school students. The findings from this study provide strong evidence that …
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Brand Loyalty, Generic Entry and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals in the Quarter Century after the 1984 Waxman-Hatch Legislation
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2014
The landmark Waxman-Hatch Act of 1984 represented a "grand compromise" legislation that sought to balance incentives for innovation by establishing finite periods of market exclusivity yet simultaneously providing access to lower cost generics expeditiously following patent expiration. Here we...
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The Evolution of Brand Preferences : Evidence from Consumer Migration
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2010
We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of consumer packaged goods. Variation in where consumers have lived in the past allows us to isolate the causal effect of past experiences on current purchases, holding constant...
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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change : Fighting HIV with Mtv
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2019
We test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an individual or a social channel. We conducted a randomized...
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Cross-Border Media and Nationalism : Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2011
How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII: the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly...
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The Persuasive Effect of Fox News : Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Simonov, Andrey; Sacher, Szymon; Dubé, Jean-Pierre; … - 2021
We test for and measure the effects of cable news in the US on regional differences in compliance with recommendations by health experts to practice social distancing during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a quasi-experimental design to estimate the causal effect of Fox News...
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Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards : Evidence from Academic Probation
Lindo, Jason M. - 2010
We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to the negative incentive brought on by being … differently based on ability, we find that being placed on probation at the end of the first year discourages some students from … is known, we find that heterogeneous discouragement effects result in high ability students having a greater overall …
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Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores
Clark, Melissa A. - 2010
indicate strong selectivity of test-takers in quot;ACT states,quot; where most college-bound students take the ACT, and much …
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Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors
Carrell, Scott E. - 2010
It is difficult to measure teaching quality at the postsecondary level because students typically quot … and tenure decisions. We exploit the random assignment of college students to professors in a large body of required …. Students of professors who as a group perform well in the initial mathematics course perform significantly worse in follow …
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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India
Bertrand, Marianne - 2010
Many countries mandate affirmative action in university admissions for traditionally disadvantaged groups. Little is known about either the efficacy or costs of these programs. This paper examines affirmative action in engineering colleges in India for quot;lower-castequot; groups. We find that...
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