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 …

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 sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …

Die massiven Gesundheitsschäden, die Rauchen verursacht, sind allseits bekannt. Die Gründe, warum Menschen zu Rauchern … sowie früher mit dem Rauchen anzufangen als solche aus sogenannten traditionellen Familien. Auch die Intensität des … Tabakkonsums hängt von der Familienform ab - Personen, die in Alleinerzieher-Haushalten aufwachsen, rauchen im Durchschnitt mehr …

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 …

This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and … inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is … found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for …

Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A … promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking … waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …

nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking more intensively a given cigarette is … where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from severe …

This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation … has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans … individual smoking behaviour over the period 2001 to 2003 during which separate smoking ban initiatives in Queensland, Victoria …

years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …