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Individual behaviors and substance use: the role of price
In: NBER working paper series 10948
"I discuss economic approaches to the demand for harmfully addictive substances and estimate time-series demand functions for the period from 1975 through 2003. My estimates suggest that changes in price can explain a good deal of the observed changes in cigarette smoking, binge alcohol drinking, and marijuana use by high school seniors. For example, the 70 percent increase in the real price of cigarettes since 1997 due to the Medicaid Master Settlement Agreement explains almost all of the 12 percentage point reduction in the cigarette smoking participation rate since that year. The 7 percent increase in the real price of beer between 1990 and 1992 due to the Federal excise tax hike on that beverage in 1991 accounts for almost 90 percent of the 4 percentage point decline in binge drinking in the period at issue. The wide swings in the real price of marijuana explain 70 percent of the reduction in particpation from 1975 to 1992, 60 percent of the subsequent growth to 1997, and almost 60 percent of the decline since that year. I conclude with implications for tax policy and for the lively and contentious debate concerning the legalization of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
An investigation of the effects of alcohol policies on youth STDs
In: NBER working paper series 10949
"The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of alcohol policies in reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases among youth. Previous research has shown that risky sexual practices (e.g., unprotected sex and multiple partners) that increase the risk of contracting a STD are highly correlated with alcohol use. If alcohol is a cause of risky sexual behavior, then policies that reduce the consumption of alcohol may also reduce the incidence of STDs. In this paper, we examine the relationship between alcohol policies (e.g., beer taxes and statutes pertaining to alcohol sales and drunk driving) and rates of gonorrhea and AIDS among teenagers and young adults. Results indicate that higher beer taxes are associated with lower rates of gonorrhea for males and are suggestive of lower AIDS rates. Strict drunk driving policies in the form of zero tolerance laws may also lower the gonorrhea rate among males under the legal drinking age"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
I did what last night?!!!: Adolescent risky sexual behaviors and substance use
In: NBER working paper series 9244
Introduction
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 23-26
ISSN: 1537-5935
Introduction
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 23-26
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?
In: NBER Working Paper No. w21609
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The Relationship Between Health and Schooling
In: Eastern economic journal: EEJ, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 281-292
ISSN: 1939-4632
Role theory and foreign policy change: the transformation of russian foreign policy in the 1990s
In: International politics, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 334-351
ISSN: 1384-5748
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Role Theory and Foreign Policy Change: The Transformation of Russian Foreign Policy in the 1990s
In: International politics: a journal of transnational issues and global problems, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 334-351
ISSN: 1740-3898
Health Benefits of Increases in Alcohol and Cigarette Taxes
In: NBER Working Paper No. w3082
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A Survey of Recent Research in Health Economics
In: The American economist: journal of the International Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 14-20
ISSN: 2328-1235