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Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013
This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich individual-level household panel data from the German SOEP with administrative county-level data to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241623
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Examining the structure of spatial health effects using hierarchical Bayes models : conference paper
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013 - This version: November 11, 2012
This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany, combining rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341163
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Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013
This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich individual-level household panel data from the German SOEP with administrative county-level data to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475803
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Social Interactions and Smoking : Evidence Using Multiple Student Cohorts, Instrumental Variables, and School Fixed Effects
Fletcher, Jason - 2008
In this paper, I use a social interactions framework to detect whether individual smoking decisions are influenced by … classmate smoking decisions. There are several large challenges in addressing this question, including the endogeneity of school … that the current results suggest smaller social interactions in adolescent smoking decisions than some previous work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726010
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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence
Sakha, Sahra; Grohmann, Antonia - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434386
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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Sakha, Sahra - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392209
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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices experimental evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Sakha, Sahra - 2015 - Updated version
This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that observing groups show lower within group standard deviation. Thus, we provide evidence for conformity. Further, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041128
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Who Smokes and How Much? - Empirical Evidence for Germany
Göhlmann, Silja - 2007
Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A … promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking … waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224381
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Revisiting Inequality as a Determinant of Mortality : A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach
Schneider, Markus P. A. - 2016
The persistent correlations between income and mortality, and inequality and mortality in the US is well established. It has been demonstrated with various empirical models at different levels of analysis. However, there is no consensus on the relevant confounding factors or even the functional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005436
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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain : Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Chib, Siddhartha - 2011
In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128224