positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behaviour between men …

findings suggest lower ability bias in within-twin pair regressions than pooled regressions. Third, using data on twins smoking … we show smoking reflects family background and using it as an instrument exacerbates ability bias. …

This paper examines the implications for health policy of recent demographic trends. It examines the remarkable …

In late 1979 Turkey found itself in the throes of a foreign exchange crisis, with widespread shortages, negative growth … and three-digit inflation. A decade later, Turkey has a comfortable balance-of-payments situation, and holds considerable …

distribution of public investment in the 81 provinces of Turkey between 2004 and 2012. Our results show that, although electoral …

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision …