The purpose of this paper is to estimate demographic differentials in alcohol and illicit drug use, participation, own … Survey of Drug Abuse and links drug and alcohol prices and policies to the individual records. The size of this data set … to reduce substance abuse have been oriented towards increasing the price of alcohol and illicit drugs. Little, however …

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 … of alcohol, as measured by a weighted average of the price of alcohol from beer, wine, and liquor, will serve to reduce …

The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effect of alcohol advertising on motor vehicle fatalities. The … markets in the United States and includes 1200 observations. Since motor vehicle fatalities and alcohol advertising are … also estimated to predict the effect of changes in the price of advertising. The regression results show that alcohol …

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …

, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …

assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …

The threat posed by smoking to health in India is severe. Already 1 in 5 of all adult male deaths and 1 in 20 of all … adult female deaths at ages 30-69 are due to smoking and India will soon have 1 million smoking deaths a year. Increasing … smoked tobacco in India, are largely untaxed, while cigarettes are taxed at about 40% of retail price, well below the 65 …

India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from …