This paper examines the role of body weight in smoking initiation by adolescents. We estimate discrete-time hazard models of the decision to initiate smoking using data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort. We control for cigarette prices, tobacco control...

The purpose of this study is to examine the question of whether alcohol or drug use increases the likelihood that teenagers will engage in violent behaviors as measured by physical fighting, carrying a gun, or carrying other types of weapons. Simple OLS estimation of the effects of drug and...

Pharmaceutical advertising and promotion are distinct in that the firm’s decisions are highly interconnected with issues surrounding consumer safety. Expenditure decisions must balance profitable demand expansions with potential regulatory actions, and depend on the nature of competition...