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Health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults

Yörük, Barış K. - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults using the confidential version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Before the Affordable Care Act required all employers to provide health...

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Do minimum legal tobacco purchase age laws work?

Yörük, Ceren Ertan; Yörük, Barış K. - 2014

This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the minimum legal tobacco purchase age (MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997 Cohort), which contains information on...

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Economic inequality and convergence through the lens of two sports

Grechyna, Daryna; Grechyn, Viktor - 2025

This paper analyzes the inequalities and convergence across countries using data on the top 100 players in chess and tennis. We explore the impact of time trends and exogenous global shocks on countries' representation in the top 100 players' lists in a manner akin to a natural experiment,...

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The oral contraceptive pill and adolescents' mental health

Costa-Ramón, Ana; Daysal, N. Meltem; … - 2023

variation in primary care providers' tendency to prescribe the pill to adolescents, unrelated to patient characteristics. Being …

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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?

Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019

Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...

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Higher order risk preferences : new experimental measures, determinants and field behavior

Schneider, Sebastian O.; Sutter, Matthias - 2020 - Version of August, 2020

with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences particularly … prudence are strongly related to adolescents' field behavior, including their financial decision making, eco-friendly behavior … perspective and clarifies which orders of risk preferences can help understand field behavior of adolescents. …

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More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace

Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2022

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a set of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by the bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from...

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Cigarette taxes, smoking, and health in the long run

Friedson, Andrew; Li, Moyan; Meckel, Katherine; Rees, … - 2021

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to discern the underlying long-term causal...

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Excise taxation for domestic resource mobilization

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2020

Most governments will have to raise additional resources to deal with the aftermath of the corona crisis. This paper argues that excise duties on drinking, smoking, gambling, sugar-sweetened beverages, plastics, fossil fuels, motoring, telecoms and platforms are the preferred instruments. In...

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Smoking today and stopping tomorrow : a limited foresight perspective

Jehiel, Philippe; Lilico, Andrew - 2009

This paper considers an intertemporal decision problem in which the agent has limited foresight. It offers an interpretation of why people may smoke when they are young - and arguably have a short horizon of foresight and refrain from smoking when they get older - and their foresight is better.

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