There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most … studies relying on cross-sectional variation. We provide new quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of workplace bans by … using the differential timing of adoption of over 100 very strong local smoking by-laws in Ontario, Canada over the period …

workplace smoking restrictions as reported by bartenders and reduced the fraction of bartenders who smoke. We do not, however …, find that SCIALs in private workplaces, government workplaces, schools, or restaurants increased the presence of workplace … reductions associated with SCIALs in previous research are unlikely to have been directly caused by effects of workplace smoking …

peer effects in smoking. We address the endogeneity of peers by looking at the impact of workplace smoking bans on spousal …

the workplace. We find no evidence that the ability of playing partners affects the performance of professional golfers …, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the workplace from laboratory experiments, grocery scanners, and soft … by social forces. We view our results as complementary to the existing studies of peer effects in the workplace and as a …