A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. …

inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is …This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and … found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual …

on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with … knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for …We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …

macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase … a 0.4 percent rise in total mortality and 0.4, 1.1, 1.8, 2.1 and 0.8 percent increases in deaths from cardiovascular …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …

explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher … increased mortality among male early retirees. …