models to health care expenditure. This paper revisits the debate in the context of female smoking and drinking, and …

particular, the analysis investigates individuals’ perception of smoking effects in the short and long-term and whether they … equations for survival expectation, subjective health and smoking. Endogeneity and unobservable heterogeneity are addressed … perception and rationality in addiction. One important result is that for both types past smokers perceive smoking consequences …

' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle … Survey (HALS) dataset and its July 2009 follow-up, allowing for unobservable factors to affect decisions regarding smoking …

stable, providing a natural control group. We evaluate the impact of schooling on smoking, for the beneficiaries of the post … evidence that educational expansion contributed to a decline in smoking. Our results also suggest that tobacco control policies … have reinforced the schooling-smoking gradient. …

This paper investigates inequality in smoking-related mortality risk, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of … smoking. We estimate a latent factor model for smoking initiation, cessation and mortality risk using the British Health and … socioeconomic gradient in smoking initiation and cessation as well as for mortality. Furthermore, we find that parental smoking …

multivariate framework, we propose a recursive model for expected longevity, self-assessed health and smoking duration, where … health and smoking variables are potentially endogenous. Unobservable individual-speci¯c heterogeneity is considered by …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior 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 behavior between men and …

as absolute levels in explaining the education-health gradient. We show that relative education impacts smoking, when …

Duration models for lifespan and smoking, that focus on the socio-economic gradient in smoking durations and length of … latent factor influences the risk of starting and quitting smoking as well as the hazard of mortality. Frailty could in …°uence smoking behaviour through two mechanisms: the effect of life expectancy on initiation of smok- ing and the impact of adverse …