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 …

found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for …-smokers only are about to start off their occupational career. Women?s earnings, however, are not affected by smoking behavior. …This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and …

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

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … investments that are efficient. Given that the gender wage gap narrows with the level of education, women's labor-market return …

There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging - one with higher subjective well-being for men. …

A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We …