We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic …. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents …. Further assumptions make the model applicable to the data from the Czech National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug …

being better in unmeasured ways. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm …-bound effects show that while students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools may benefit … from attending them, most students perform no better at single sex schools. I show that the treatment effect for the …

period. We also find that surviving girls are shorter. Second, using monthly time series data for 35 years, we again find …Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates … foetal and newborn girls, and on a scale much larger than "dowry deaths" amongst married women which have been the subject of …

to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households …Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … (NFHS-3) to conduct the first study that analyzes whether son preference is associated with girls bearing a larger burden of …