This article investigates factors affecting the participation in marijuana, cocaine and heroin using micro-unit data from an Australian national survey on recreational drugs. Accounting for cross-drug correlation potentially induced by unobserved personal characteristics such as individual...

This paper examines Australians participation in beer, wine and spirits consumption using a trivariate probit model and unit-record data from the National Drug Strategy Household Surveys. It estimates the effects of social, economic and demographic factors on an individuals decisions of alcohol...

This paper examines the effects of socioeconomic and demographic factors on Australian individuals' participation in beer, wine and spirits consumption using unit-record data during 1991-2001. A trivariate probit formulation allows for participation in the three alcoholic beverages to be...

If public expenditure and public revenue are I (0), public debt is sustainable, butif these are I (1) and not cointegrated or have a cointegrating vector differentfrom [1, -1], the public debt is said to be unsustainable. Extant work indicates that India's public debt is unsustainable. The...

Objective To determine if obese patients have longer average length of stay once they are admitted to hospital, across a range of specialties. This contributes to measuring the impact of obesity on health care resource use. Data Sources/Study Setting Administrative hospital data are used for the...