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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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"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...
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school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
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protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
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We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …
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-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …
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We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...
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