Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the …, while alcohol consumption has no effect. It is therefore not only 'who you are' that affects the subjective rating of health …

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

, 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 …

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 … cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social interactions make consumption "sticky". We use … group behavior. Peer group effects are strongest for alcohol use, and young males are more influential than young females …

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 …

We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults …

This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and … inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is … found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for …