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Education Expenditure Responses to Crop Loss in Indonesia: A Gender Bias

Cameron, L.; Worswick, C. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper studies the impact of crop loss on the level of educational expenditure of Indonesian households using data from the 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey. The data are unique in that they contain self-reported information on crop loss and on household responses to crop loss. Thirty-four...

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Wages and Alcohol Consumption, Smoking, Weight Gain and Exercising: Evidence on Australian Men and Women.

Hirschberg, J.; Lye, J.N. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1999

. Special attention is given to nonlinearities and interaction of these effects between each other and with age as is suggested …

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Two Apects of Fertility Behaviour in South Africa.

Gangadharan, L.; Pushkar, M. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1999

among South African women - the age at first conception and the number of pregnancies. We find that education has a … significant effect in pushing back the age at first conception and in reducing the number of pregnancies. There is a thresh …-hold level of education that must be attained before education starts delaying the age at first conception and the number of …

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Cannabis use and suicidal ideation

Jan C. van Ours, Jenny Williams, David Fergusson, L. … - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2012

Globally, suicide has emerged as the second leading cause of death among youth aged 10-24 years old. In order to better understand the causes of this phenomenon, we investigate the relationship between suicidal ideation and cannabis use. Our empirical analysis is based on a 30 year longitudinal...

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Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems

Ours, Jan C. van; Williams, Jenny - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2009

This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved factors aecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use. Our main nding is that using cannabis increases the...

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