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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005783
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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159294
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The case for presenteeism
Markussen, Simen; Mykletun, Arnstein; Røed, Knut - 2010
Can activation requirements control moral hazard problems in public sickness absence insurance and accelerate recovery? Based on empirical analysis of Norwegian data, we show that it can. Activation requirements not only bring down benefit claims, they also reduce the likelihood that long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312944
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The Effects of Stepwise Minimum Legal Drinking Age Legislation on Mortality : Evidence from Germany
Kamalow, Raffael - 2019
This study investigates the short-term mortality effects of two age-based restrictions on legal access to alcohol in Germany. We exploit sharp differences in legal access to alcohol at 16 and 18 years by implementing a regression discontinuity design. We find discontinuous increases in deaths at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867140
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Re-evaluating an evaluation study : the case of the German health care reform of 1997
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper reports on a re-evaluation of the German health care reform of 1997. A previous evaluation found a limited effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based on a representative household survey, the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001807289
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A Comparison of the Leading Indicators of COVID-19 Deceased Rates in New Delhi, India during the First Quarter of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020
Puri, Rian - 2021
This paper analyzes the 5-, 14- and 21-day cumulative positivity rate vis-à-vis the COVID-19 deceased rate of each time period for the first four months of COVID-19 from April 2020 to September 2020 in New Delhi, India with the intention of getting insight into the relationship between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220621
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One last puff? : public smoking bans and smoking behavior
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824844
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Seasonality in smoking behaviour : re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201685
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Seasonality in smoking behaviour : re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436572
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More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace
Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2022
Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in … findings. First, unlike previous studies that focus on smoking bans in public places, we find robust evidence that WSBs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821966