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Public Smoking Bans, Youth Access Laws, and Cigarette Sales at Vending Machines
Kvasnicka, Michael - 2010
Tobacco control policies have proliferated in many countries in recent years, in particular youth access laws and public smoking bans. The effectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set...
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Smoking bans, cigarette prices and life satisfaction
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2013
The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective wellbeing by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...
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Household expenditure on cigarettes and tobacco in Syria
Alachkar, Ahmad - 2008
The study uses average data from Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2004 in Syria to examine monthly household expenditure on cigarettes and tobacco and its relationships with a group of socioeconomic variables. It is found that this expenditure increases by average household income. This...
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Count data models with unobserved heterogeneity: An empirical likelihood approach
Boes, Stefan - 2007
As previously argued, the correlation between included and omitted regressors generally causes inconsistency of standard estimators for count data models. Using a specific residual function and suitable instruments, a consistent generalized method of moments estimator can be obtained under...
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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
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...
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Pollution Exposure and Infant Health: Evidence from Germany
Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2010
This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution levels. These data come from the Federal Environment...
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Smoking and Returns to Education: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Reilich, Julia - 2011
Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...
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Einfluss der Familienform auf den Schulerfolg von Kindern nicht nachweisbar
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 73 (2006) 13, pp. 165-169
, ob Jugendliche rauchen, lässt sich allerdings empirisch beantworten: Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene, die in nicht … zu rauchen. Die genaueren Ursachen hierfür werden derzeit näher untersucht. …
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Scheidungskinder rauchen mehr
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schimeta, Quirin; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 34, pp. 2-7
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 …
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Familiäre Einflüsse spielen eine wichtige Rolle beim Rauchverhalten junger Menschen: Sieben Fragen an Thomas Siedler
Siedler, Thomas; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 34, pp. 8
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