Smoking during pregnancy has been shown to have significant adverse health effects for new born babies. Smoking is the … have related health problems in infancy and beyond. Despite these outcomes, many women still smoke during pregnancy. The … main question for policy makers is whether tobacco control policies can influence maternal smoking and reduce adverse birth …

education of partners and their parents. Adult health behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and exercise are more positively …In this paper, we investigate the issue of partner selection in the health of individuals who are at least fifty years … associated in England compared to the United States. Childhood health indicators are also positively associated across partners …

sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …-level changes to smoking ban legislation over time, estimates suggest that smoking bans have improved the health of both infants and …

age. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we interact a genetic risk score for smoking initiation with … development of smoking behaviors. The Vietnam-era draft lottery offers a unique opportunity to investigate whether genetic … susceptibility to smoking is influenced by risky environments in young adulthood. Access to free or reduced-price cigarettes coupled …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility … expansions for pregnant women and children during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine effects on several prenatal health …

without the use of any product. Thus, the public health returns to smoking cessation product advertisements exceed the private …To shed new light on the role private profit incentives play in promoting public health, in this paper we conduct an … empirical study of the impact of pharmaceutical industry advertising on smoking cessation decisions. We link survey data on …

between health and years of schooling after controlling for differences in income and other variables. Cigarette smoking is a … health consequences of smoking became widely known; it has remained strong even in the most recent cohorts. This implies that … the mechanism behind the schooling-smoking correlation may also give rise to the schooling-health correlation …

paper I employ the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to estimate a structural model … caloric intake (adjusted for activity level) and smoking, a set of reduced form equations for these outcomes is estimated …