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This paper uses store-level data on consumer liquor revenues and volume sales in Oregon to estimate the effect of state tax differentials on consumer demand. Liquor privatization in Washington led to higher prices from new taxes. I calculate the impact of tax incidence on tax avoidance using...
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This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for alcohol in terms of total quantity and quantity subdivided … into frequency and intensity demand. The analysis compares across alcohol types (beer, wine and spirits), alcohol drinking … demand for wine. Binge drinkers show less of a differentiation across alcohol types and this is true even of binge drinking …
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related to alcohol consumption, narcotics use and tobacco smoking over the seventeen years prior to the implementation of the … Swedish government's first strategy for alcohol, narcotics, doping and tobacco (ANDT) in 2011. We also sought to explain the …. Our two key research questions, for each of alcohol, narcotics and smoking were: 1) How have trends in a) consumption …
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In this paper adolescent alcohol- and illicit drug-use among 1st and 2nd generation immigrants from Nordic, non … including 13,070 adolescents. Immigrants from Nordic countries were more likely to use alcohol (OR: 1.10-1.37) while immigrants … from non- European countries were less likely to use alcohol (OR: 0.52-0.81), mainly explained by the relatively low use by …
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morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal access to alcohol increases the frequency and intensity of … drinking, which results in more hospital admissions due to alcohol intoxication. The effects are stronger for boys and … access to alcohol is very high and hardly changes at the MLDA. However, teenagers consider binge drinking at weekends to be …
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The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity … well as the employees who were laid off and a comparison group. These data were merged with information on alcohol … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by …
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Consider a marriage market with continuous-time two-sided search and transferable utility in which the match payoff depends on age. This paper characterizes a set of payoff functions consistent with two salient marriage age patterns: (1) assortative matching by age, and (2) \differential age...
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Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date, has a causal effect on track choice. Using a sample of male labor market entrants drawn from Austrian register data, I analyze whether the initial assignment to different school...
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This paper studies the evolution of life satisfaction over the life course in Germany. It clarifies the causal interpretation of the econometric model by discussing the choice of control variables and the underidentification between age, cohort and time effects. The empirical part analyzes the...
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In Sweden, children typically start compulsary school the year they turn seven. Individuals born just before or just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school att different ages. We exploit this source of exogenous variation, to identify the effects of age at school...
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