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Health Consequences of Easier Access to Alcohol: New Zealand Evidence
Scrimgeour, Dean; Conover, Emily - Department of Economics, Colgate University - 2012
We evaluate the health effects of a reduction in New Zealand's minimum legal purchase age for alcohol. Difference …-in-differences (DD) estimates show a substantial increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations among those newly eligible to purchase … ineligible younger cohorts. There is little evidence of alcohol either complementing or substituting for drugs. We do not find …
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Health consequences of easier access to alcohol: New Zealand evidence
Conover, Emily; Scrimgeour, Dean - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 570-585
We evaluate the health effects of a reduction in New Zealand's minimum legal purchase age for alcohol. Difference …-in-differences (DD) estimates show a substantial increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations among those newly eligible to purchase … ineligible younger cohorts. There is little evidence of alcohol either complementing or substituting for drugs. We do not find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010664618
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220685
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The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health
Carpenter, Christopher; Dobkin, Carlos - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 25 (2011) 2, pp. 133-56
purchase, possess and consume alcoholic beverages." Does the age-21 drinking limit in the United States reduce alcohol … signatories of the Amethyst Initiative is incorrect: setting the minimum legal drinking age at 21 clearly reduces alcohol … legal drinking age on alcohol consumption and estimate the costs of adverse alcohol-related events on a per-drink basis …
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Policing Cannabis and Drug Related Hospital Admissions: Evidence from Administrative Records
Kelly, Elaine; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Abstract We evaluate the impact of a policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth, on hospital admissions related to illicit drug use. To do so, we exploit administrative records on individual hospital admissions classified...
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The Connection Between Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: Inspecting the Mechanisms
Fertig, Angela; Glomm, Gerhard; Tchernis, Rusty - Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research … - 2006
This paper investigates the channels through which maternal employment affects childhood obesity. We use time diaries and interview responses from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics which combine information on children’s time allocation and mother’s labor...
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
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Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers
Akee, Randall; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5 (2013) 2, pp. 1-28
We investigate the effect of household cash transfers during childhood on young adult body mass indexes (BMI). The effects of extra income differ depending on the household’s initial socioeconomic status (SES). Children from the initially poorest households have a larger increase in BMI...
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John; Frisvold, David E.; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959837
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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Carpenter, Christopher; Postolek, Sabina; Warman, Casey - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 3 (2011) 3, pp. 35-61
Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using data with questions about respondents' ETS exposure in...
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