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 …

, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or … well as controls for potential endogeneity in the health-SES relationship. Using data from German Socio Economic Panel, we … find that the health-SES relationship does vary across the life cycle and that endogeneity is an important influence on the …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in … Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

, 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 … American adolescents. We find that, even controlling for school fixed effects, these behaviors are correlated with lagged peer …

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 …