This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up smoking. … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from …

example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang … choosing the treatment (e.g. marriage or gang membership) may have differed in their criminality from those who did not even in …

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 …

in marriage over smoking, rather than bargaining within the couple or social learning. …We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health … repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of …

theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to …

Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …

for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to …, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

panel data from the Add Health survey to examine risky behavior (the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana) by …