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The Effect of Changes in Alcohol Tax Differentials on Alcohol Consumption
Gehrsitz, Markus; Saffer, Henry; Grossman, Michael - 2020
increases by beverage group and the impacts on public health of alternative types of tax hikes whose main aims are to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269876
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The effect of changes in alcohol tax differentials on alcohol consumption
Gehrsitz, Markus; Saffer, Henry; Grossman, Michael - 2020
increases by beverage group and the impacts on public health of alternative types of tax hikes whose main aims are to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210351
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and its Influence on Childhood Obesity
Chou, Shin-Yi; Kelly, Inas; Grossman, Michael - 2007
Childhood obesity around the world is an escalating problem that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048316
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Moral hazard and less invasive medical treatment for coronary artery disease : the case of cigarette smoking
Margolis, Jesse; Hockenberry, Jason; Grossman, Michael; … - 2014
longevity. To test our hypothesis, we use Medicare records linked to the National Health Interview Survey to study one such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409884
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Health and the wage rate : cause, effect, both, or neither? : new evidence on an old question
Dench, Daniel; Grossman, Michael - 2018
We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949107
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The human capital model of the demand for health
Grossman, Michael - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001379650
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Health and the wage : cause, effect, both, or neither? : new evidence on an old question
Dench, Daniel; Grossman, Michael - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978478
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Determinants of health : an economic perspective
Grossman, Michael - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553541
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The human capital model
Grossman, Michael - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001541396
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Effects of weight on adolescent educational attainment
Kaestner, Robert; Grossman, Michael; Yarnoff, Benjamin - 2009
"In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and adolescent's educational attainment, as measured by highest grade attended, highest grade completed, and drop out status. Data for the study came from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844300