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The Impact of Playworks on Boys' and Girls' Physical Activity During Recess

Bleeker, Martha; Beyler, Nicholas; James-Burdumy, Susanne; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2015

Playworks had a significant impact on some measures of girlsâ€™ physical activity at recess, but no significant impact on measures of boysâ€™ physical activity.

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The United States and the Arab Spring

Kivimäki, Timo - In: Journal of Human Security 9 (2013) 1, pp. 15-26

This article reveals, by studying correlative relationships between US regime support and regime properties, that the US foreign policy in the Middle East has traditionally helped governments to limit the political participation of Islamists, communists, enemies of Israel and populations that...

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28th out of 30: Poor medicine and unhealthy Americans

Fullbrook, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In 1970 the USA spent 7% of its GNP on healthcare, in 200716%. Whereas the OECD average per capita expenditure on … healthcare in 2007 was $2,964, the USA spent $7,290. Yet in that same period, the health of America’s citizens relative to those … up around healthcare in the USA. Because the magnitude of the relative decline in healthcare in the USA is poorly …

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Taxes, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration - a metabolite of nicotine - measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important...

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Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health

Halliday, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Estimation indicates that there is a large degree of heterogeneity. For half the population, there are modest degrees of state dependence. For the...

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Disability, Gender and the Labour Market

Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act....

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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...

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The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective

Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...

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Before and After the Black Death: Money, Prices, and Wages in Fourteenth-Century England

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that the Black Death of 1347-48, followed by other waves of bubonic plague, led to an abrupt rise in real wages, for both agricultural labourers and urban artisans – one that led to the so-called...

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TAX SUBSIDIES AND THE PROVISION OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN SMALL FIRMS

Stabile, Mark - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1999

This paper examines the effects of tax subsidies to employer provided health insurance on the distribution of insurance across firms of different sizes. I present a simple model which shows that the tax subsidies may increase the provision of insurance in smaller firms and hence help equalize...

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