Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women’s Knowledge and Use of Contraception Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we exploit tempo...

Este trabajo tiene como finalidad revisar los componentes de la sostenibilidad ante propagación del virus SARS-CoV-2 en el estado Puebla, México, que actualidad ocupa octavo lugar (de 32) incidencia enfermedad causada por dicho virus. Debido a después más un año primer caso esta entidad federativa, se determina estudiar casos activos, es decir, han presentado últimos 14 días. Para detectar dich...

This paper investigates whether new health information aff ects smoking behavior. Interpreting three distinct categories of health events as diff erent information, the paper also tests whether behavioral change depends on the type of information received. Based on retrospectively reported data on smoking behavior from the Swiss Household Panel, a linear probability model is applied to estimate...

This paper estimates the eff ect of informal care provision on female caregiver’s health. We use data from the German Socio-economic Panel and assess eff ects up to seven years after care provision. A simulation-based sensitivity analysis scrutinizes the sensitivity of the results with respect to potential deviations from the conditional independence assumption in the regression adjusted matchi...

In 2015, the United Nations launched SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs) in collaboration with civil society and firms, recognizing that leading firms have potential to innovate bold solutions at scale achieve global sustainability. Exploring impact of SDGs’ launch on through lens normative pressure, we apply computer-aided text analysis language used sustainability reports 164 large corporati...

We test whether fi nancial incentives have an eff ect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese persons assigned to three experimental groups. While two treatment groups obtain €150 and €300, respectively, for achieving an individually assigned target weight within four months, a control group receives no such premium. The results indicate that the weight losses f...

The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children’s human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses on cognitive skills as determinants of human capital, it neglects non-cognitive skills. We analyze dat...

We explore the determinants of usage of six different types of health care services, using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data, years 1996-2000. We apply a number of models for univariate count data, including semiparametric, semi-nonparametric and finite mixture models. We find that the complexity of the model that is required to fit the data well depends upon the way in which the data i...

Recent studies on the effects of anti-smoking policies on subjective well-being present mixed results and focus mainly on smokers. We contribute to the literature by exploiting the policy experiment provided by the UK public smoking bans and evaluating the impact of smoking bans on the subjective well-being of smokers, non-smokers and couples of different types of smokers. We employ matching te...

We have previously reported that the cytotoxic activity of murine CD8(+) CTLs specific for HIV-1 gp160 envelope protein was markedly inhibited in vitro by brief exposure to a free epitope peptide P18-I10 (aa: RGPGRAFVTI) using the epitope-specific CTL line (LINE-IIIB) or a clone (RT-1). We have also shown that recently stimulated P18-I10-specific murine CTLs rapidly fell into apoptosis in vitro...