We model the idea that when consumers search for products, they first visit the firm whose advertising is more salient …. The gains a firm derives from being visited early increase in search costs, so equilibrium advertising increases as search … heterogeneity in advertising costs. Firms whose advertising is more salient and therefore raise attention more easily charge lower …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

emerging and developing countries. This fact is surprising considering the background of relatively low local advertising …Das internationale Werbefestival in Cannes ist einer der wichtigsten internationalen Gradmesser für kreative Werbung …

and preferred hours, the so-called work hours constraints? How does this affect the productivity of workers, their health …, and overall life satisfaction? Labor supply and corresponding demand are fundamental to production. Labor economists know …

This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the … German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable … exploiting the extended longitudinal dimension of the panel to track self-reported life satisfaction of women eventually to …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …