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Sportfinanzierung – Spannungen zwischen Markt und Staat
Büch, Martin-Peter; Maennig, Wolfgang; Schulke, … - 2008
Sport wird einerseits wie jede andere Tätigkeit in der Gesellschaft mit öffentlichen Abgabelasten beschwert … steuerlichen Behandlung des Sports hat wiederholt Fragen nach der öffentlichen Finanzierung des Sportes aufgeworfen: Inwieweit sind …
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FACTORS INFLUENCING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES
Ligeon, Carel; Gregorowicz, Philip; Jolly, Curtis M. - 2007
Alcohol consumption is considered an important social activity but a major health risk in Latin American and Caribbean countries (LAC). Alcohol consumption net benefits are doubtful and the factors influencing alcohol consumption in the LAC countries are not well documented. In this study, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443324
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U.S. Alcohol Consumption: Tax Instrumental Variables in Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand (QUAIDS)System
Jithitikulchai, Theepakorn - 2011
Replaced with revised version of poster 08/30/11.
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The analysis of policies to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty [FAST version]
Wilson, Edgar James - 2009
A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457368
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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs
Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - 2010
This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the laboreconomics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In thecontext of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on healthstatus are willing to work for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442744
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Changes in Food, Alcohol and Cigarettes Consumption during Transition: Evidence from Russia
Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Oskam, Arie J.; … - 2009
This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...
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Essays on Health Economics
Wang, Yang - 2009
their smoking choices. I find that US elderly tend to over-emphasize the importance of their genetic makeup but … underestimate the influence of their health-related choices, such as smoking, on their longevity. This finding can partially explain … effects of their genes and health-related choices on their longevity, then the average smoking rate for the age group analyzed …
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Decision Analysis Considering Welfare Impacts in Water Resources Using the Benefit Transfer Approach
Shaqadan, Ashraf - 2008
Decision making in environmental management is faced with uncertainties associated with related environmental variables and processes. Decision makers are inclined to use resources to acquire better information in one or more uncertain variable(s). Typically, with limited resources available,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482348
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The economic cost of adverse health effects from wildfire-smoke exposure: a review.
Kochi, Ikuho; Donovan, Geoffrey H.; Champ, Patricia A.; … - 2010
The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious consideration in determining the optimal wildfire management policy. Unfortunately, the literature in this research area is thin. In an effort to better understand the nature of these...
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Minimum Disparity Estimator in Continuous Time Stochastic Volatility Model
Li, Ziliang - 2010
In the study of finance, likelihood based or moment based methods are frequently used to estimate parameters for various kinds of models given the sampled return data. While the former method is not robust, the latter one suffers from loss of efficiency and high noise-to-signal ratio in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450777