This paper uses a discrete choice approach to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in … exert a negative influence over decisions to start smoking, but their effect on quitting smoking is less clearcut. …

This paper uses duration analysis to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the …

how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic … future tax hike, they postpone smoking moderation until the tax hike actually takes place. Finally, the government's revenue …

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 …

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 analyzes the welfare effects of a public smoking ban in bars. We construct a model that captures crucial … features of bar life: competing bars, social interaction, and heterogenous preferences for a smoking ban. Smokers and non … the smoking regime strategically. Since the (dis)utility from smoking and social interaction are substitutes, the smoking …