Showing 1 - 10 of 1,689
A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in … primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that … policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333303
A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in … primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that … policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239267
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542529
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443107
armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining …. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984792
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774570
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000989604
In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do … this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the … endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may provide a biased picture of the impact of alcohol consumption on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262375
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278786
Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286865