We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more …-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first … show that import shocks affect employment and income, but only in areas where jobs are more intense in routine tasks …. Exploiting over 40 million individual observations on health and mortality, we find that import had a detrimental effect on …

We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more …-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

according to some unobserved health characteristic, then estimates of the effect of tobacco on health that do not account for …. We show that there is selection into smoking, and considerable dispersion around the average effect, so that health … and nonsmokers will spuriously reveal a worsening effect of tobacco on health if they fail to control for selection. …

according to some unobserved health characteristic, then estimates of the effect of tobacco on health that do not account for …. We show that there is selection into smoking, and considerable dispersion around the average effect, so that health … and non smokers will spuriously reveal a worsening effect of tobacco on health if they fail to control for selection. …

individual careers from the choice to join such a scheme and followed by their employment, job to job transitions and wages over … apprenticeships increase wages, and change wage profiles with more growth upfront, while wages in the non-apprenticeship sector grow … and a substantially larger variance in initial level of the offered wages. We find no evidence that qualified apprentices …

profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

modelling individual careers from the choice to join such a scheme and followed by their employment, job to job transitions and … wages over the lifecycle. Our data is drawn from administrative records that report accurately job transitions and pay. We … find that apprenticeships increase wages, and change wage profiles with more growth upfront, while wages in the non …