's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking … accurately relative to the extant literature. Our proxy predicts smoking participation of second-generation British immigrants …

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We … the literature to control for the past smoking behavior of individuals. 2SLS earnings estimates show that the smoking wage … penalty is reduced by as much as a third, if past smoking of individuals is controlled for. Our results also point to …

In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children … evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases the probability that their children likewise become smokers. Youths … living in families with both parents smoking are 3.3 times more likely to smoke themselves, while a smoking father raises the …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …