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The interaction between personality and health policy : empirical evidence from the UK smoking bans
Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2020
Five personality traits. We are particularly interested in conscientiousness, given the evidence that it is a good proxy …We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big …
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The Interaction between Personality and Health Policy : Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
Josten, Cecily - 2020
Five personality traits. We are particularly interested in conscientiousness, given the evidence that it is a good proxy …We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831982
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Impact of Italian smoking ban on business activity of restaurants, cafés and bars
Pieroni, L.; Daddi, P.; Salmasi, L. - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 1, pp. 70-73
We estimate the economic impact of the Italian smoking ban of 2005 on the catering sector using a quasi-experimental design. Our study indicates that the Italian smoking ban had a slight negative impact on sales of cafés and restaurants but had no effect on profits, earnings, or employment.
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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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Behind Every High Earning Man Is a Conscientious Woman: A Study of the Impact of Spousal Personality on Wages
Averett, Susan L.; Bansak, Cynthia; Smith, Julie K. - 2018
of the big five personality characteristics (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness …This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931721
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Behind every high earning man is a conscientious woman : a study of the impact of spousal personality on wages
Averett, Susan; Bansak, Cynthia; Smith, Julie K. - 2018
of the big five personality characteristics (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness …This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898884
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Youth unemployment and personality traits
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-26
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market … unconfoundedness, of multiple personality traits at the same time (Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data … influence personality. Our results show that individuals that display low effort and diligence, low self-esteem, and external …
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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … subjects' choices and, the unobservables that influence personality. …
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Science Skepticism Reduced Compliance with COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Policies in the United States
Brzezinski, Adam; Kecht, Valentin; Van Dijcke, David; … - 2021
Physical distancing reduces transmission risks and slows the spread of COVID-19. Yet compliance with shelter-in-place policies issued by local and regional governments in the United States was uneven and may have been influenced by science skepticism and attitudes towards topics of scientific...
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Public smoking bans and self-assessed health: Evidence from Great Britain
Wildman, John; Hollingsworth, Bruce - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 209-212
Smoking bans in public places are considered an important public health intervention. The impact of such bans on health, and especially self-reported health, has not been widely considered in the literature. This paper investigates the impact of a public smoking ban on self-reported health...
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