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Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? – A Structural Model Approach
Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - 2007
The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264706
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999-2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-effects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273591
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Prudence and prevention: Empirical evidence
Mayrhofer, Thomas; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2020
-order risk preferences and various measures of observed real-world prevention behavior. We find that prudent individuals indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271030
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Health's kitchen: TV, edutainment and nutrition
Principe, Francesco; Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020
Does media exposure affect health behaviours? And how? We exploit the idiosyncratic switchover to digital television across Italian regions which exogenously increased the number of free view national channels and we link this to high-frequency data on the supply of food-related contents on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012414823
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999–2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-eff ects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018046
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Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? – A Structural Model Approach
Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007
The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561983
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Are Expectations Formed by the Anchoring-and-adjustment Heuristic? – An Experimental Investigation
Roos, Michael W. M.; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2008
information about the economic model than in previous studies also form biased expectations. Second, we argue that in some cases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264725
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The myth of the misinformed migrant? Survey insights from Nigeria's irregular migration epicenter
Beber, Bernd; Scacco, Alexandra - 2022
continue to make significant investments in information campaigns designed to discourage irregular African migration. Despite … the ubiquity of these campaigns, we know relatively little about potential migrants' prior knowledge and beliefs. To what … migration-related information campaigns, and with them a central component of migration policies in countries across the Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412993
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Are Expectations Formed by the Anchoring-and-adjustment Heuristic? – An Experimental Investigation
Roos, Michael W.M.; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
information about the economic model than in previous studies also form biased expectations. Second, we argue that in some cases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005436115
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Communication Problems? The Role of Parent-child Communication for the Subsequent Health Behavior of Adolescents
Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015
behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may … function as a mediator between family background and subsequent poor health behavior, potentially reconciling previous mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520542