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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking among Sexual Minority Adults

Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2020

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … 1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …

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

Marti, Joachim - 2017

discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smokers' demand for cigarette type varies by four policy …-cigarettes, and using both products. Each group responds differently to the cigarette attributes suggesting that policies will have …

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Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

Odermatt, Reto - 2013

impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life …

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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects

Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023

There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...

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Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences

Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023

Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to...

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Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

Little is known about how gamblers estimate probabilities from multiple information sources. This paper reports on a preregistered study that administered an incentivized Bayesian choice task to n=465 participants (self-reported gamblers and non-gamblers). Our data failed to support our main...

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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2023

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...

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Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision

Abeler, Johannes; Huffman, David; Raymond, Collin - 2023

Using field and laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that the complexity of incentive schemes and worker bounded rationality can affect effort provision, by shrouding attributes of the incentives. In our setting, complexity leads workers to over-provide effort relative to a fully rational...

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Innovation and the Labor Market : Theory, Evidence and Challenges

Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023

This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the available empirical studies, novel evidence is...

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Outside Options and Worker Motivation

Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023

We study the relationship between outside options and workers' motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in outside options arising from age and experience cutoffs in the Austrian unemployment insurance (UI) system, and use absenteeism as a proxy for worker effort. Results indicate that a...

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