Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

strict working time regulations, monitoring and lack of autonomy – all indicators for control at the workplace – are … explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of … performance appraisal systems, monitoring by supervisors, autonomy to organize the work) and individuals’ inclination to trust …

This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation … has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans … policies also affect if a person smokes, or if they only influence when and where people smoke. We use data that tracks …

representative micro data on household consumption expenditures. We find that disadvantaged caste groups such as Other Backward …We examine spending on consumption items which have signaling value in social interactions across groups with … distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The …

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the … hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the quantiles, if the level of durable goods consumption …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … outcome is also reflected in their higher household consumption expenditure. Overall, the effects vary within each minority …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover …This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to …, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate …

survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys …Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international … likely to congregate. We analyze how closely well-designed snowball and intercept point surveys can approach the much more …