focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner's past smoking, which is … consistent with endogenous effects. However, after controlling for individual effects, we find that own current smoking and …

In den vergangenen Jahren sind anhand der vormals internen Dokumente der Tabakindustrie die Verbindungen zwischen … verschiedenen medizinischen Disziplinen sowie prominenten Vertretern des Faches Public Health und der Tabakindustrie in Deutschland … Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Tabakindustrie und prominenten Vertretern der deutschen Arbeitsmedizin gespielt hat, ist dringend …

This paper presents a hedonic housing price model for the city of Glasgow in Scotland. The major innovation of the …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify … the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals’ smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich longitudinal …

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking … general failure in the literature to control for past smoking behaviour of individuals. Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS …) regressions show that the smoking wage penalty is reduced by as much as a third, if past smoking of individuals is controlled for. …

order to derive testable constraints that bound the effect of schooling on smoking. Data from the Swiss Health Survey …

In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children … evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases the probability that their children likewise become smokers. Youths … living in families with both parents smoking are 3.3 times more likely to smoke themselves, while a smoking father raises the …