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We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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society. In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and non-fatal child maltreatment in the UK … lifetime costs of child maltreatment from a societal perspective. The discounted average lifetime incidence cost of non … largest contributors to this are costs from social care, short-term health and long-term labour market outcomes. The …
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The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
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hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …
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Germany. We exploit sharp differences in legal access to alcohol at 16 and 18 years by implementing a regression discontinuity …
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We study the link between performance pay and alcohol use in Germany, a country with mandated health insurance … conclude that even in the face of mandated health insurance, the link found in the US persists in Germany …
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only reduce their commuting costs by reducing total labour supply. However, a labour supply model which also allows for … optimally chosen daily hours implies that commuting costs increase daily hours, whereas the effect on total labour supply is … commuting distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is …
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Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to...
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Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how … equivalent of the costs of the extra time stress is very large. While the departure of a child from the home reduces parents …
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