Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - In: Journal of Health Economics 29 (2010) 5, pp. 774-777
In volume 23, issue 2 of this journal, Cawley, Markowitz and Tauras used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort to estimate the relationship between body weight and smoking initiation. Using maternal obesity status as an instrument, they found strong evidence that...