Economic conditions and alcohol problems.
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This article investigated the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and two alcohol-related outcomes, such as consumption and highway vehicle fatalities, and found no evidence that fluctuations in economic conditions have a disproportionate impact on the drunk-driving of young adults.About:
This article is published in Journal of Health Economics.The article was published on 1995-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 231 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Consumption (economics) & Poison control.read more
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Fig 4: Change In Gross Oornestic Product In U.S. and Se4ected Stales 
Table 1: Description of and Summary Statistics on Variables Used In Analysis 
Table 2: Squared Correlation Coeftlcient Liciween State and Natlonal Economic Conditions Iiuem- Employment in Gross Unem- Employment A in Gross 
Table 6: Fixed Effect Estimates of the Relationship Between 
Table 5: Fixed Effect Estimates olDie Relationship Between Percent of Population Employed and Alcohol Outcomes 
Fig. 2: Unemploymefl Rate In U.S. and Selected States
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Are Recessions Good For Your Health
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between economic conditions and health and found that smoking and obesity increase when the economy strengthens, whereas physical activity is reduced and diet becomes less healthy, and there is some evidence that the unfavorable health effects of temporary upturns are partially or fully offset if the economic growth is longlasting.
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Effects of beverage alcohol price and tax levels on drinking: a meta-analysis of 1003 estimates from 112 studies
TL;DR: A large literature establishes that beverage alcohol prices and taxes are related inversely to drinking, and public policies that raise prices of alcohol are an effective means to reduce drinking.
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Identifying the effect of unemployment on crime
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the relationship between unemployment and crime using U.S. state data and found that a substantial portion of the decline in property crime rates during the 1990s is attributable to the decline of the unemployment rate.
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Healthy Living in Hard Times
TL;DR: This article showed that smoking and excess weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. But, there is little evidence of an important role for income reductions, and the overall conclusion is that changes in behaviors supply one mechanism for the procyclical variation in mortality and morbidity observed in recent research.
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Good times make you sick.
TL;DR: There is a counter-cyclical variation in physical health that is especially pronounced for individuals of prime-working age, employed persons, and males, and there is some suggestion that mental health may be procyclical, in sharp contrast to physical well-being.
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Statistical abstract of the United States
TL;DR: The Red River of the North basin of the Philippines was considered a part of the Louisiana Purchase by the United States Department of Commerce in the 1939 Census Atlas of the United Philippines as discussed by the authors.
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On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health
TL;DR: A model of the demand for the commodity "good health" is constructed and it is shown that the shadow price rises with age if the rate of depreciation on the stock of health rises over the life cycle and falls with education if more educated people are more efficient producers of health.
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A Theory of Rational Addiction
Gary S. Becker,Kevin M. Murphy +1 more
TL;DR: The authors developed a theory of rational addiction in which rationality means a consistent plan to maximize utility over time, and showed that even small deviations from the consumption at an unstable steady state can lead to large cumulative rises over time in addictive consumption or to rapid falls in consumption to abstention.
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Procrastination and Obedience
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on situations involving repeated decisions with time inconsistent behavior and illustrate several "pathological" modes of individual and group behavior: procrastination in decision making, undue obedience to authority, membership of seemingly normal individuals in deviant cult groups, and escalation of commitment to courses of action that are clearly unwise.
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Are Workers Permanently Scarred by Job Displacements
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether workers suffer lasting "scars" following job displacements and found that dislocated individuals are defined as scarred if they continue to earn less or to be unemployed more than their non-displaced counterparts, even after the conclusion of a several-year adjustment period.