repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners’ behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of …We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner’s past smoking, which is …

cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that increases in cigarette taxes can induce food … stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking households. Then, we study the theoretical predictions empirically by … from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. The empirical evidence strongly supports the model predictions. Higher cigarette …

designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine whether recent changes in state … cigarette taxes affected how young smokers obtained their cigarettes. Our estimates suggest that tax increases reduce youth … smoking participation primarily through their effect on third-party purchase, although there is evidence that they are …

, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior – eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking – in a way that increases … longevity. To test our hypothesis, we use Medicare records linked to the National Health Interview Survey to study one such … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …

of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum …

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 …

detailed panel data from the Add Health survey to examine risky behavior (the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana) by …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual …