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Campaña antitabaco en Uruguay:Impacto en la decisión de dejar de fumar durante el embarazo y en el peso al nacer
Harris, Jeffrey E.; Balsa, Ana; Triunfo, Patricia - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2014
Background. In 2005, Uruguay instituted a nationwide tobacco control campaign that has resulted in a substantial decline in nationwide smoking rates. We sought to determine the quantitative contributions of each of the major tobacco control measures adopted by the Uruguayan government. We...
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Anthropometric failure and persistence of poverty in rural India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Veena - In: International Review of Applied Economics 19 (2005) 2, pp. 179-197
estimates point to more pervasive deprivation than conventional measures of poverty based on income or consumption expenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005269187
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Improved estimates of the benefits of breastfeeding using sibling comparisons to reduce selection bias
Reilly, Siobhan; Evenhouse, Eirik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Objective Better measurement of the health and cognitive benefits of breastfeeding by using sibling comparisons to reduce sample selection bias. Data We use data on the breastfeeding history, physical and emotional health, academic performance, cognitive ability, and demographic characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623436
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Sorting into Secondary Education and Peer Effects in Youth Smoking
Pertold, Filip - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2009
The start of daily smoking is often shortly after the resorting of students between elementary and secondary education. This paper employs a novel identification strategy based on this resorting, in order to estimate peer effects in youth smoking. We address the reflection problem by peers’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556897
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Per capita income versus household-need adjusted income: A cross-country comparison
Koulovatianos, Christos; Minkovski, Polina; Schroeder, … - 2010
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335538
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Disability costs and equivalence scales in the older population
Morciano, Marcello; Hancock, Ruth; Pudney, Stephen - 2012
We estimate the implicit disability costs faced by older people, using data on over 8,000 individuals from the UK … for measurement error in observed disability and standard of living indicators. We find that disability costs are strongly … related to the severity of disability and to income and - at an average level of almost £100 per week among over-65s with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288980
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Disability costs and equivalence scales in the older population
Morciano, Marcello; Hancock, Ruth; Pudney, Stephen E. - 2012
We estimate the implicit disability costs faced by older people, using data on over 8,000 individuals from the UK … for measurement error in observed disability and standard of living indicators. We find that disability costs are strongly … related to the severity of disability and to income and - at an average level of almost £100 per week among over-65s with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009528830
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Per-capita income versus household-need adjusted income: a cross-country comparison
Koulovatianos, Christos; schröder, carsten; Minkovski, … - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 11-23
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by Household-Size Economies, due to the within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multi-member households. In most of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820082
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Nonparametric estimation of a compensating variation: The cost of disability
Hancock, Ruth; Morciano, Marcello; Pudney, Stephen - 2013
disability benefit (£28) or total public support (£47) received. Estimated costs rise strongly with the severity of disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331240