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Health risk factors among the older European populations : personal and country effects
García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - 2014
of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413782
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Same-sex marriage, the great equalizer
Parakhonyak, Alexey; Popov, Sergey V. - 2019
When limited to heterosexual marriage, agents of different genders are not guaranteed to harvest the same payoff even conditional on having the same type, even if all other factors, such as search costs or the distribution of partner types, are same across genders. If same-sex marriage is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962016
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Trends in earnings inequality and earnings instability among US couples : how important is assortative matching?
Hryshko, Dmytro; Juhn, Chinhui; McCue, Kristin - 2014
We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey of Income and Program Participation panels (SIPP-SSA) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460789
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Quantifying the cost of passive smoking on child health : evidence from children's cotinine samples
Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael; Wheatley Price, Stephen; … - 2006
Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … towards the problem of passive smoking. One of our main contributions is the use of a large nationally representative sample … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348534
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Impact of comprehensive smoking bans on the health of infants and children : evidence from the U.S.
McGeary, Kerry Anne; Dave, Dhaval; Lipton, Brandy J.; … - 2019
policy response has been to impose restrictions on smoking through 100% smoke-free bans (comprehensive smoking bans). Yet … sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … shifting their consumption of cigarettes from public venues that impose a comprehensive smoking ban to smoking at home, then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988547
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Reducing underage alcohol and tobacco use : evidence from the introduction of vertical identification cards
Bellou, Andriana; Bhatt, Rachana - 2012
-in-difference methodology, we find a reduction in drinking and smoking for 16 year olds. These results are robust to the inclusion of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656636
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Locus of control and marital satisfaction : couple perspectives using Australian data
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2019
We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates whether one believes that one's outcomes are more under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109472
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The marital satisfaction of differently-aged couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied with older wives. Interestingly, women likewise tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114591
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The marital satisfaction of differently-aged couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied with older wives. Interestingly, women likewise tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694834
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The empirical content of marital surplus in matching models
Doorley, Karina; Dupuy, Arnaud; Weber, Simon - 2018
well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913168