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This study estimates the effect of Internet health information on health care utilisation. The causal variable of … interest is a binary variable that indicates whether or not an individual has used the Internet to search for health … that, on average, using the Internet as health information source increases the utilisation of health care. The effect is …
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This study is to investigate the determinants of healthcare information amongst women in Taiwan aged between 25 and 69 years, and the association with cervical cancer screening.A two-stage estimation model was adopted for this investigation. In the first stage, the determinants of healthcare...
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The economics of health behaviours concerns decisions about smoking, diet and exercise, drinking alcohol, and other consumer choices with important health consequences. The neoclassical model of the consumer and its extensions provide the theoretical framework for most economic research on...
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A field experiment was conducted in France to evaluate the impact of health information on fish consumption. A warning given to the treatment group revealed the risks of methylmercury contamination in fish and also gave consumption recommendations. Using difference-in-differences estimation, we...
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An experiment was conducted in France to evaluate the impact of health information on consumers' choice between two different types of fish. Successive messages revealing risks (methylmercury) and benefits (omega-3s) of consuming the fish, along with consumption recommendations, were delivered....
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disrupts our sleep with detrimental effects on our health and cognitive performance. High-speed Internet promotes the use of … electronic devices, video games and Internet addiction (e.g., online games and cyberloafing). Exposure to artificial light from … relationship between technology use near bedtime and sleep. This paper studies the causal effects of access to high-speed Internet …
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internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use … to explain inequalities in internet intensity, explicitly controlling for non-users. Secondly, we use the frequencies of … five different internet applications to further investigate the determinants of the second-level digital divide. Thirdly …
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The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags … across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time scales from the micro to the macro level. The paper uses internet …
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disrupts our sleep with detrimental effects on our health and cognitive performance. High-speed Internet promotes the use of … electronic devices, video games and Internet addiction (e.g., online games and cyberloafing). Exposure to artificial light from … relationship between technology use near bedtime and sleep. This paper studies the causal effects of access to high-speed Internet …
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