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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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satisfaction grow in market size. We document this phenomenon across 246 US radio markets. By a mechanism that we term 'preference … externalities', an increase in the size of the market brings forth additional products valued by others with similar tastes. But who … possibly reduced) by the size of the white population. Consequently, small groups receive less variety from the market. Forces …
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Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers …
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We consider nonparametric identification in models of differentiated products markets, using only market level … models widely used in applied work. We allow for product/market-specific unobservables, endogenous product characteristics (e …
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Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. We … examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a benchmark aggregate model of time allocation. We find … that product market regulations affect time devoted to market work in effectively the same fashion as do taxes on labor …
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In this paper we provide a simple, credible method for assessing the effects of climate change on the quality of agricultural land and then apply this method using a rich set of data on the vineyards of the Mosel Valley in Germany. The basic idea is to use a simple model of solar radiation to...
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In recent years, some English critics have claimed that Damien Hirst and his fellow young British artists have made London the new center of the advanced art world. As Hirst reaches the age of 40, this paper uses auction results to measure the importance of the YBAs compared to their American...
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Backcasting upward bias in price index over long periods of time yields levels of real consumption two or four centuries ago that are implausibly low, raising the possibility that price index bias for important products may have been zero or even negative at some point in the past. This paper...
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