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intake and obesity. The cross-national trends, across countries spanning the spectrum of economic development and geographic …
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Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s for pregnant women. Accordingly, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women....
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obesity. The economic burden of depression, about $100 billion annually, is under-estimated if depression has a positive … causal impact on obesity. If depression plays a causal role in increasing the prevalence of obesity, then policy … from major depression to higher BMI and obesity. While contemporaneous effects are considered, the study primarily focuses …
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The canonical theory of taxation holds that the incidence of a tax is independent of the side of the market which is responsible for remitting the tax to the government. However, this prediction does not survive in certain circumstances, for example when the ability to evade taxes differs across...
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Gasoline taxes can be employed to correct externalities from automobile use and to raise government revenue. Our understanding of the optimal gasoline tax and the efficacy of existing taxes is largely based on empirical analysis of consumer responses to gasoline price changes. In this paper, we...
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