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THE SERBIAN FUNCTIONAL FOOD MARKET: DOES REGULATION MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

Žaklina, Stojanović; Radmila, Dragutinović-Mitrović - In: Economic Annals 57 (2012) 193, pp. 53-70

, based on health claims made for food. Consumers in Serbia cannot verify health claims either before or after the purchase …

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The economic impact of Swiss smoking bans on the hospitality sector

Marti, Joachim; Schläpfer, Jörg - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 136-139

Analysing administrative sales data in a quasi-experimental framework, we show that smoking bans did not impact the economic activity of bars and restaurants in Switzerland. However, we find some evidence of a negative impact on sales in discos.

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Estimating the causal effect of alcohol consumption on well-being for a cross-section of 9 former Soviet Union countries

Mentzakis, Emmanouil; Suhrcke, Marc; Roberts, Bayard; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 89 (2013) C, pp. 1-7

While the adverse health and economic consequences attributable to alcohol consumption are widely acknowledged, its … region with a major burden of alcohol related ill health, we address this problem by employing an instrumental variable …

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Are fruit and vegetables good for our mental and physical health? Panel data evidence from Australia

Mujcic, Redzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

-assessed health, mental health, psychological distress, and vitality. The estimated relationships are mainly non-monotonic in nature … health and psychological distress scores. There are also gender differences in the estimated effects, with the intake of … fruit and vegetables increasing average happiness and self-reported health scores of women significantly more than that of …

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Beware of feedback effects among trust, risk and public opinion: Quantitative estimates of rational versus emotional influences on attitudes toward genetic modification

Kelley, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Support for genetic modification in agriculture mainly stems from approval of food and agricultural goals. It is facilitated by trust in the judgment of scientific authorities and undermined by anxiety about the risks involved. But there are symptoms of danger: Any public opinion data that show...

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Economic Growth and Health Indicator in Thailand

durongkaveroj, wannaphong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

(GNI) and health indicators including life expectancy and mortality rate under 5 in Thailand between 1980 - 2011 using …

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Immigration policy and birth weight: positive externalities in Italian law

Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

increase in the prevalence of "regular immigrants" has led to an improvement in health outcomes of babies born to migrant women …

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Strategies for antiviral stockpiling for future influenza pandemics: a global epidemic-economic perspective

Carrasco, L R; Lee, V J; Chen, M I; Matchar, D B; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Influenza pandemics present a global threat owing to their potential mortality and substantial economic impacts. Stockpiling antiviral drugs to manage a pandemic is an effective strategy to offset their negative impacts; however, little is known about the long-term optimal size of the stockpile...

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Does cigarette smoking affect body weight? causal estimates from the clean indoor air law discontinuity

Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the causal effects of smoking behavior on body weight in Italy. In 2005, the Italian government introduced a smoking ban in all indoor public places. We use a regression discontinuity design, which exploits this exogenous variation across cohorts to achieve identification in...

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Political Economy of Secularism: Rediscovery of India

Tyabji, Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

As it was in Europe, secularism in India is an intrinsic part of the process of the emergence of a modern identity of the people of a multi-language and multi-ethnic society, the necessity for which is being continuously generated by industrialisation and urbanisation.The emergence of this...

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