Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a
collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages …

Aims We conducted a systematic review of studies examining relationships between
measures of beverage alcohol tax or price levels and alcohol sales or self‐reported drinking …

Quantile regression is gradually emerging as a unified statistical methodology for estimating
models of conditional quantile functions. By complementing the exclusive focus of classical …

Quantile regression, as introduced by Koenker and Bassett (1978), may be viewed as an
extension of classical least squares estimation of conditional mean models to the estimation …

To date, 19 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their
effects. The current study examines the relationship between the legalization of medical …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

▪ Abstract Integrating data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, national coroner studies, census and college …

A systematic review of the literature to assess the effectiveness of alcohol tax policy
interventions for reducing excessive alcohol consumption and related harms was conducted …

This paper studies alcohol consumption among low-income workers in India. In a 3-week
field experiment, the majority of 229 cycle-rickshaw drivers were willing to forgo substantial …

Since the time of Gauss, it has been generally accepted that $\ell_2 $-methods of combining
observations by minimizing sums of squared errors have significant computational …