We show, with three longitudinal datasets, that cigarette taxes and prices affect smoking
initiation decisions. Evidence from longitudinal studies is mixed but generally find that …

Background This study aimed to investigate the differences in reported care seeking
behaviour and treatment between children with pneumonia and children without pneumonia …

Background This study explores the magnitude and timing of sex and gender disparities in
child development by describing differences in health outcomes for male and female …

Surveys often ask respondents to report non-negative counts, but respondents may
misremember or round to a nearby multiple of 5 or 10. This phenomenon is called heaping …

Smoking rates in the country of origin were used to empirically examine whether immigrants
converge toward natives' level of smoking prevalence with assimilation. Results show that …

Self-reported income information particularly suffers from an intentional coarsening of the
data, which is called heaping or rounding. If it does not occur completely at random–which is …

Background China is the world's largest producer and consumer of cigarettes. The status of
tobacco as both a contributor to China's economy and a liability for the health of its …

This article examines the effect of tobacco prices on the decision to start smoking in
Argentina. Argentina is an interesting case to explore given its high smoking rates, its recent …

Rounding errors are often observed in reported trip departure and arrival times in paper-
based travel surveys, and most of the reported times are multiples of 5, 15, 30, or 60 min …

This paper assesses analytical strategies that respect the bounded-count nature of health
outcomes encountered often in empirical applications. Absent in the literature is a …