We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of … potential mates, and over their socioeconomic quality. Spousal smoking is bad for non-smokers, but it is neutral for smokers …, while individuals always prefer high socioeconomic quality. Furthermore, there is a gender difference in smoking prevalence …

, 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 …

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 …, although the effects in this case are weaker. -- Birth outcomes ; smoking ; mother's work ; sibling estimators ; instrumental …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe … estimation biases. -- taxes ; smoking ; cigarettes ; addiction …

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to …, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate … the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in excise taxes and their interaction with smoking intensity. -- tobacco …

employ a triple differences plus Fixed-Effects framework to examine the effect of this change on the probability of smoking … among low-educated mothers. We find that the probability of smoking for white and Hispanic low-educated mothers of two or … in health behaviors, and therefore have important policy implications. -- smoking ; EITC ; low-income mothers …

) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four … smoking when we restrict our attention to the period 2007-2013. …

, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to … design campaigns to alter the derived nature of cigarette demand, especially among adolescent girls. -- smoking ; cigarettes …