. The evidence suggests that the behavioral effects are mostly driven by children from low socio-economic households. Day …

Cigarette smokers earn significantly less than nonsmokers, but the magnitude of the smoking wage gap and the pathways … Cohort, and we simulate the model under counterfactual scenarios that isolate the contemporaneous effects of smoking from … for unobserved heterogeneity in the joint determination of smoking, human capital, labor supply, and wages, suggest that …

for one vital health-related behavior, smoking. The decomposition uses an underlying model that considers both individual … heterogeneity and smoking persistence, showing that the largest contributions to the pro-rich smoking inequality come from years of …

children, a ten percent increase in household income implies an increase in body weight with about 0.4 kilo. The body weight of …