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Recent studies analyzing the effects of religion on various economic, social, health and political outcomes have been largely associational. Although some attempts have been made to establish causation using instrument variable (IV) or difference-in-difference (DID) methods, the instruments and...
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, drinking, and smoking on weight. We apply a dynamic panel system GMM estimation model to longitudinal (1991-2006) data from …
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This paper studies how health behaviors and investments are shaped through family spillovers. Leveraging administrative healthcare data, we identify the effects of health shocks to individuals on their family members' consumption of preventive care and health-related behaviors. Our...
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We study the impact of mandatory calorie posting on consumers' purchase decisions, using detailed data from Starbucks. We find that average calories per transaction falls by 6%. The effect is almost entirely related to changes in consumers' food choices--there is almost no change in purchases of...
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This paper estimates the impact on consumer behavior of a firm's voluntary disclosure of information. Specifically, we study the impact of Starbucks' disclosure of calorie information on its menu boards in June 2013. Using data on over 250,000 consumers' visits to specific restaurant chains, we...
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
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tobacco, vaping offers the potential to prevent most of the health consequences of smoking. We study the impact of an …Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Because e-cigarettes do not involve the combustion of … perceptions and vaping and smoking behavior; and national aggregate time-series sales data. We find that after the outbreak …
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the price-elasticity of smoking help predict trends in smoking from 1995 to 2010. The demographics of the smoking … population in our baseline year predict a downward trend in smoking even if cigarette prices remained constant. Average cigarette … prices, however, more than doubled in real terms by 2010. We find that the observed declines in smoking over this period are …
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Statisticians have proposed meta-analysis to combine the findings of multiple studies of health risks or treatment response. The standard practice is to compute a weighted-average of the estimates. Yet it is not clear how to interpret a weighted average of estimates reported in disparate...
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cigarettes enable youth smoking. Yet there is almost no direct evidence on their effects using real-world policy variation. We … significantly reduced menthol cigarette smoking among both youths and adults. We also find strong evidence of substitution, however …: provincial menthol bans significantly increased non-menthol cigarette smoking among youths, resulting in no overall net change in …
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