This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and … variation in anti-smoking policies across US states, we show that smoking bans in public places can perversely increase the …, especially for those most exposed. We supplement this analysis by showing that bans have little effect on smoking cessation, and …

empirically examine data from two countries, England and Spain, which exhibit rising obesity levels, as well as smoking and … examining how the existence of income-related inequalities in unhealthy behaviours and more specifically, obesity (as a proxy … for excessive food intake), alcohol intake and smoking might explain the persistence of health inequalities. We …

variance estimators, the approach which weights residuals by the design weight can be severely biased in the presence of … nonresponse. The approach which weights residuals by the calibrated weight tends to display much less bias. Varying the choice of …