A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. …

, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior – eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking – in a way that increases … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …

supported by numerous studies that show that SAHS is a better predictor of mortality and morbidity than medical records. The … 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 …

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 …

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 investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …