daily or regular drinking. The effects appear to be due to changes in peer networks and disposable income. We find no … evidence of a direct impact of schooling on rates of time preference, attitudes towards risk or perceptions that drinking or … smoking are harmful to health, though our measures of these factors are more limited. …

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 …

' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle … Survey (HALS) dataset and its July 2009 follow-up, allowing for unobservable factors to affect decisions regarding smoking …

models to health care expenditure. This paper revisits the debate in the context of female smoking and drinking, and …

drinking in the past year, and marijuana smoking in the past month. The research highlights the need to account for unobserved … effects underline the relative importance of fathers in mitigating cigarette smoking in the past month, regularly alcohol …

-related behavior, namely physical exercise, dietary habits, smoking, drinking, and sleep duration among Japanese men aged 20 ?40 years … and sleep duration are affected by unemployment, while there are no observed effects on dietary habits, smoking, and … frequency of drinking. Being unemployed has positive effects on frequency of exercise and sleep duration. When an individual …

This paper estimates peer influences on the alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use of a school based sample of UK 15 year …