What drives youth smoking initiation in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Evidence from a split-population duration model [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjectives To examine the association between cigarette price increase and youth smoking initiation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H), and to assess additional factors—including parental smoking, peer influence, pocket money, anti-tobacco media ...
Violeta Vulovic +4 more
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Potential benefits of minimum unit pricing for alcohol versus a ban on below cost selling in England 2014: modelling study [PDF]
BMJ, 2014 Objective To evaluate the potential impact of two alcohol control policies under consideration in England: banning below cost selling of alcohol and minimum unit pricing. Design Modelling study using the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model version 2.5.
Brennan, A. +4 more
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Informality and Mobility in the Labor Market: A pseudopanel's approach
Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico, 2017 One of the main limitations of labor market analysis in developing countries is the lack of appropriate panel data information. This paper extends the methodology of Dang et al. (2014) to examine labor market mobility between the formal and informal sectors in Bolivia and Colombia building consistent pseudo panels from repeated cross-sectional survey ...
Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza +2 more
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Labor-force Participation of Married Women in Turkey: A Study of the Added-Worker Effect and the Discouraged-Worker Effect [PDF]
, 2015 Cataloged from PDF version of article.We analyze married women's labor-supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added-worker effect) and worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged-worker effect).
Karaoglan, D., Okten, C.
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The evolution of wages in the United Kingdom: evidence from micro data [PDF]
, 1996 We use data on male employees from the U.K. Family Expenditure Survey for the years 1968-86 to investigate the behavior of wages over time and across cohorts. We find that differentials between manual workers and professional managerial ones are lower at
Meghir, C.H.D., Whitehouse, E.
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Social Insurance and Truncated Benefits: Measuring the Impacts of Workers′ Compensation
Economics Research International, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 This study addresses the indirect impacts of state‐mandated workers′ compensation benefits on workers′ wages. The benefit structure of workers′ compensation causes a fundamental estimation problem. I develop a new strategy to limit the biases inherent in earlier models.
Samuel K. Allen, Almas Heshmati
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, 2015 Making correct causal claims is important for research and practice. This article explains what causality is, and how it can be established via experimental design.
Antonakis +22 more
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Harmonizing data from the UK expenditure and food survey and the National food survey: an application to fruit and vegetable demand [PDF]
, 2012 Given the increasing obesity rates and incidence of diet-related ill health in western countries, unhealthy eating and food consumption have recently entered the policy agenda of most European governments and reliable information on food consumption ...
Capacci, Sara
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The Study of Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Impoverishment of Households based on Life-cycle Theory using Pseudo-Panel Approach [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2020 This study aims to investigate the percentage of households facing catastrophic health expenditure and the impoverishment index before and after the implementation of the Health System Reform Plan (HSRP) in rural and urban areas of Iran. This research is
mandana atefi +3 more
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The built environment typologies in the UK and their influences on travel behaviour: new evidence through latent categorisation in structural equation modelling [PDF]
, 2015 This paper uses a new latent categorisation approach (LCA) in structural equation modelling (SEM) to gain fresh insights into the influence of the built environment characteristics upon travel behaviour.
Jahanshahi, Kaveh, Jin, Ying
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