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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-02)This paper uses duration analysis to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the role of tobacco taxes. Applying a variety of parametric duration models, including a split population ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-10)This paper examines the issues involved in setting the appropriate tax on cigarettes in Ireland. It compares Irish tax rates with those in other EU countries and then examines the external costs of cigarette consumption ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-12)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-02)This paper uses a discrete choice approach to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the role of tobacco taxes. Standard probit analysis is applied to both starting and quitting. Tobacco ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-02)This paper analyses decisions regarding smoking and drinking for a sample of Irish women. Double-hurdle models are estimated to determine whether decisions to smoke/drink are made independently of how much to smoke/drink. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-10)This paper calculates the concentration index for self-assessed health for a sample of Irish women. It then decomposes the index to investigate the sources of this inequality using both a health production function and ...
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(Irish Bankers' Federation, 2002)
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(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2002-02)In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in regions that are more advanced in restructuring ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-09-05)We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling deci- sions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic, ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-12-23)It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital ...