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The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption : an instrumental variables approach
Mitrou, Francis; Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2023
cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. We find that mental distress significantly increases the prevalence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332029
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Returns to Education : The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking
Heckman, James J. - 2016
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990853
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns … mainly operate by changing maternal smoking, and that the physical fitness of the mother has a direct, "biological" effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421186
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Intergenerational transmission of inequality : maternal endowments, investments, and birth outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - 2023
endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns … mainly operate by changing maternal smoking, and that the physical fitness of the mother has a direct, "biological" effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391200
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Smoking and the business cycle : evidence from Germany
Kaiser, Micha; Reutter, Mirjam; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2017
In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the effect on cigarette consumption of macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of which control for selection bias, indicate that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724491
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Smoking and the Business Cycle : Evidence from Germany
Kaiser, Micha - 2017
In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the effect on cigarette consumption of macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of which control for selection bias, indicate that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948627
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The Accuracy of Less : Natural Bounds Explain Why Quantity Decreases Are Estimated More Accurately Than Quantity Increases
Chandon, Pierre - 2017
Five studies show that people, including experts such as professional chefs, estimate quantity decreases more accurately than quantity increases. We argue that this asymmetry occurs because physical quantities cannot be negative. Consequently, there is a natural lower bound (zero) when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967314
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460662
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Indebted and overweight: The link between weight and household debt
Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - 2012
There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289881
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Indebted and overweight : the link between weight and household debt
Averett, Susan; Smith, Julie K. - 2012
There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629689