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Alcohol availability and alcohol-attributable mortality : economic implications following a change in sales policy
Stoppel, Relika - 2019
estimates the effect of reduced alcohol sales hours on alcohol-attributable mortality (AAM) in Estonia. Using novel mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317628
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Job loss and health spillovers in the family
Gathmann, Christina; Huttunen, Kristiina; Jenstrom, Laura; … - 2020
workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document a stunning asymmetry: when a man loses his job in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438180
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From pain patient to junkie : an economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity
Strulik, Holger - 2019
In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of painkiller consumption that combines the theory of health deficit accumulation with the theory of addiction. Chronic pain is conceptualized as a persistent negative shock to lifetime utility that can be treated by pain relief medication. Some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265283
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Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2019
The anticipation of bad future events reduces currently experienced happiness and it may through this channel elicit detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological aging into a life-cycle model, calibrate it with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265303
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Trends, patterns and regional variations of COVID-19 pandemic in India at sub-national level : analysis based on spatial econometric method
Haldar, Sushil Kumar - In: Managing Pandemic and Correcting Development …, (pp. 85-105). 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310730
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Do soda taxes affect the consumption and health of school-aged children? : evidence from France and Hungary
Gangl, Selina - 2021 - Revised version
This paper examines the effect of two different soda taxes on consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children in Europe: Hungary imposed a Public Health Product Tax (PHPT) on several unhealthy products in 2011. France introduced solely a soda tax, containing sugar or artificial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670748
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Health effects of labor market policies : evidence from drug prescriptions
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2019 - This draft: February 15, 2019
Comprehensive evidence has shown that unemployment can have adverse effects on an individuals' mental and physical health condition. However little is known about the side effects of governmental policies that aim to promote the unemployed's reintegration into the labor market on the health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287660
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Do soda taxes affect the consumption and health of school-aged children? : evidence from France and Hungary
Gangl, Selina - 2020
This paper examines the effect of soda taxes on the consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children in Europe: Hungary imposed a "Public Health Product Tax" on several unhealthy products including sodas in 2011. France introduced solely a tax on sodas, containing sugar or artificial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426921
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Consumer sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dzung Bui; Dräger, Lena; Hayo, Bernd; Giang Hong Nghiem - 2021
This paper uses the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study to investigate the direct and indirect effect of beliefs of others on respondent's own beliefs and on their individual consumer sentiment. In a new online consumer survey with randomized control trials (RCTs) in Thailand and Vietnam, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013338074
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Cross-country spillovers of renewable energy promotion : the case of Germany
Abrell, Jan; Kosch, Mirjam - 2021
Electricity generation based on renewable energy (RE) sources such as wind and solar replace the most expensive … generators in the market, and thus induce a decrease in wholesale electricity prices. This so-called merit-order effect … paid for by the consumers within the country itself, impact neighboring electricity markets. We estimate the cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013338076