This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …

health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …

cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality …Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to …

the upper and the lower limit. The purpose of this article is to challenge several myths related to the cigarette taxation … in the EU. The first one is that an increase of the specific component of the cigarette excise negatively affects the … the paper is that an increase of the specific excise increases the government revenue from cigarette excises, whereby this …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in … findings. First, unlike previous studies that focus on smoking bans in public places, we find robust evidence that WSBs …

Recent analyses of intergenerational mobility show that investments in children pay big dividends. The priority of …

drinking, especially for males, but does not have any significant impact on smoking or marijuana use habits of young adults … adults using the confidential version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Before the … Affordable Care Act required all employers to provide health insurance to employees' children until the age of 26 (before …

evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development … monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county …