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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Consumer Welfare
Jayawardhana, Jayani - 2013
The welfare implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have garnered considerable attention and are complicated since the consumer delegates some decision-making authority to the physician, who is exposed to advertising as well. In this paper, I develop and estimate a structural model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089806
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Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels
Davis, Lucas W. - 2014
Information provision is a key element of government energy-efficiency policy, but the information that is provided is often too coarse to allow consumers to make efficient decisions. An important example is the ubiquitous yellow “EnergyGuide” label, which is required by law to be displayed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043356
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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517689
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Estimating a consumer demand system of energy, mobility and leisure : a microdata approach for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2014
relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect …, respectively leisure demand effects for Germany. Using a demand system to estimate the price, cross-price and income effects of the … goods mobility, electricity, heating and leisure from microdata, there will also be accounted for the extensive demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339053
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Estimating a consumer demand system of energy, mobility and leisure : a microdata approach for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2014
relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect …, respectively leisure demand effects for Germany. Using a demand system to estimate the price, cross-price and income effects of the … goods mobility, electricity, heating and leisure from microdata, there will also be accounted for the extensive demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340294
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Estimating a Consumer Demand System of Energy, Mobility and Leisure : A Microdata Approach for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2014
relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect …, respectively leisure demand effects for Germany. Using a demand system to estimate the price, cross-price and income effects of the … goods mobility, electricity, heating and leisure from microdata, there will also be accounted for the extensive demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037269
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197560
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro’ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186450
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193273
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Consumer welfare and unobserved heterogeneity in discrete choice models : the value of alpine road tunnels
Cerquera, Daniel; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010
We investigate the sensitivity of consumer surplus estimates to parametric assumptions on individual preference heterogeneity in a discrete choice framework. We compare results from a parametric random coefficients logit model and a recently proposed nonparametric sieve estimator. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702154