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The effects of smoking ban regulations on individual smoking rates

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Wilkins, Roger - 2005

This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans is the effect of second hand smoke on non-smokers. From...

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Transitions to disability and rehabilitation

Andreassen, Leif; Kornstad, Tom - 2010

The discrete choice model of McFadden (1973) is used to quantify the desire for going into rehabilitation or disability among fully employed married women in Norway. Predictions using the model indicate that as much as 60 percent of full-time employed married women going into disability or...

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Gendered barriers to formal healthcare utilization: Modelling healthcare demand in a lowresource setting

Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021

This paper develops a model of healthcare demand to study healthcare choices in resourcelimited settings with poor health indicators, especially for women. Using data from rural Nigeria on individual illnesses and injuries as well as the entire portfolio of locally available providers, we...

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Population preferences for non-pharmaceutical interventions to control the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: trade-offs among public health, individual rights, and economics

Mühlbacher, Axel C.; Sadler, Andrew; Jordan, Yvonne - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 23 (2022) 9, pp. 1483-1496

choice decisions for or against specific lockdown scenarios. Individual income decreases had the most impact. Excess … WTA estimates, people would be willing to accept a greater risk of infection to avoid loss of income. Discussion The …, the results show that citizens want to limit the decline in individual income during pandemic measures. Participation in …

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To 'Vape' or Smoke? A Discrete Choice Experiment among Adult Smokers

Marti, Joachim; Buckell, John; Maclean, J. Catherine; … - 2017

A growing share of the United States population uses e-cigarettes. In response, policymakers are considering regulating e-cigarettes, or have already done so, due to concerns regarding e-cigarettes' public health impact. However, there is currently little population-based evidence to inform...

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Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

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Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins

Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020

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Do Socio-Economic Indicators Associate with Covid-2019 Cases? Findings from a Philippine Study

Alipio, Mark; Lantajo, Grace Meroflor - In: IMCC Journal of Science 1 (2021) 2, pp. 102-107

population, and savings to Covid-2019 cases. However, high income and low subsistence incidence were associated with significant … subsistence and increase income. Concerted multi-region efforts should be made to prepare for possible infection outbreaks in the …

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Native-immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the second generation: The role of gender and ethnicity

Baert, Stijn; Heiland, Frank; Korenman, Sanders - 2014

We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants,...

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Female Migration: A Way out of Discrimination?

Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015

determined by more traditional push factors such as household income or network effects and constraints such as family …

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