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Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way to raise emergency funding after disasters. However, for victims of a recent major Colorado wildfire, we find that crowdfunding raised more support for high income and prime credit beneficiaries rather than helping the most vulnerable. Specifically,...
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aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking. The analysis is … preference for both, mothers and fathers. That is, an increasing level of patience of parents is associated with a lower smoking … influence of health-related mediating factors such as parental smoking and alcohol consumption. It turns out that role modeling …
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We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated, including the endogenous decisions to seek...
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Cigarette smokers earn significantly less than nonsmokers, but the magnitude of the smoking wage gap and the pathways … Cohort, and we simulate the model under counterfactual scenarios that isolate the contemporaneous effects of smoking from … for unobserved heterogeneity in the joint determination of smoking, human capital, labor supply, and wages, suggest that …
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This paper addresses the trade-off between unfavourable air pollution levels and favourable weather conditions for selecting a date for the staging of an outdoor event. For an event date that has been fixed, it presents a personal preference-based data-driven decision framework for individual...
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Transport has a large number of significant externalities including carbon emissions, air pollution, accidents, and congestion. Active travel such as cycling and walking can reduce these externalities. Moreover, public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel due...
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Cigarette butts are the most prevalent plastic litter, producing more than 766 million kg of harmful waste annually. Smokers indiscriminately dropped their cigarettes virtually everywhere. Realizing the danger it can bring, the researchers investigated these wastes on their potential use as an...
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repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner's past smoking, which is … consistent with endogenous effects. However, after controlling for individual effects, we find that own current smoking and …
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Reducing tobacco smoking is a global public health objective. The success of curbing smoking via public health and … public health objective to curb smoking. We conclude, taking harm reduction seriously – NCAs should be treated differently …
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I augment the standard rational addiction model to include an insurance component whereby the effects of addiction can be mitigated. The model implies that increasing the level of insurance in the future induces a forward-looking individual to consume more of a harmfully addictive good...
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