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The Effect of Native Language on Internet Usage

Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

is likely to retain its first-mover advantage of a large installed base of English language websites. I study this issue … that English language websites are less of a barrier for French-speaking youths than for French-speaking adults in Quebec … hypothesis that English will retain its first mover advantage of a large installed base of English language websites. I also …

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Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation

Blundell, Richard William; Chiappori, Pierre-André; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We present identification and estimation results for the 'collective' model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and non-participation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied...

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A Pint a Day Raises a Man's Pay; But Smoking Blows that Gain Away

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and...

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Do Consumers Care About How Prices Are Set?

Courty, Pascal; Pagliero, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a survey approach, we ask consumers to reveal their preferences over pricing schemes that may differ in terms of the average price of consumption, the amount of price variation, and the probability of being rationed. We find that consumers dislike pricing schemes that vary prices more but...

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Is Cannabis a Stepping-Stone for Cocaine?

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper uses a unique dataset collected among inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study the dynamics in the consumption of cannabis and cocaine. If people start using these drugs they are most likely to do so at age 18-20 for cannabis and age 20-25 for cocaine. An analysis of the starting rates...

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Why Parents Worry: Initiation into Cannabis Use by Youth and their Educational Attainment

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper we use individual level data from the Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey to study the relationship between initiation into cannabis use and educational attainment. Using instrumental variable estimation and bivariate duration analysis we find that those initiating...

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The Value of Don Bradman: Additional Revenue in Australian Ashes Tests

Blackham, Julian; Chapman, Bruce - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

One way to understand the value of sporting ‘superstars’ is to examine the effect they have on match attendances and revenue. Arguably, the most famous sports star in Australia was Sir Donald Bradman, whose batting average has far exceeded that of any cricket players. This paper examines the...

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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Clark, Deborah A. Cobb; Antecol, Heather - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

We use the exogenous assignment of Army personnel to duty locations to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report...

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Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases...

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Sweet Diversity: Colonial Goods and the Rise of European Living Standards after 1492

Hersh, Jonathan; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Did living standards stagnate before the Industrial Revolution? Traditional real-wage indices typically show broadly constant living standards before 1800. In this paper, we show that living standards rose substantially, but surreptitiously because of the growing availability of new goods....

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