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Workers' health and social relations in Italy
Fiorillo, Damiano - In: Journal of economic studies 43 (2016) 5, pp. 835-862
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Friends and health of the workers in Italy
Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities of Italian employees. We address the self-selection of individuals in labour market using an Heckman selection model. Our main...
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Drug Compliance, Co-Payment and Health Outcomes : Evidence from a Panel of Italian Patients
Atella, Vincenzo - 2010
rates - using a large panel of patients residing in a local health authority in Italy. These data allow us to follow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012717687
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To "vape" or smoke? : a discrete choice experiment among adult smokers
Marti, Joachim; Buckell, John; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - 2017
A growing share of the United States population uses e-cigarettes. In response, policymakers are considering regulating e-cigarettes, or have already done so, due to concerns regarding e-cigarettes' public health impact. However, there is currently little population-based evidence to inform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607316
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The Dynamics of Physical and Mental Health
Ohrnberger, Julius - 2016
Mental and physical aspects are both integral to health but little is known about the dynamic relationship between them. We consider the dynamic relationship between mental and physical health using a sample of 10,339 individuals in six waves (2002-2013) of the English Longitudinal Study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999734
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To 'Vape' or Smoke? Experimental Evidence on Adult Smokers
Marti, Joachim; Buckell, John; Maclean, Catherine; … - 2018
A growing share of the U.S. population uses e‐cigarettes but the optimal regulation of these controversial products remains an open question. We conduct a discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smokers' demand for e‐cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes varies by...
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322077
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383690
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Does a pint a day affect your child's pay? : the effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes
Nilsson, Peter (contributor) - 2008
This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739713
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239266