While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper … extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal … NMSSTR than nonsmokers. In addition, as low-earnings workers have a higher smoking prevalence than high-earnings workers …

, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This … for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to …

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 …

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 …

employ a triple differences plus Fixed-Effects framework to examine the effect of this change on the probability of smoking … among low-educated mothers. We find that the probability of smoking for white and Hispanic low-educated mothers of two or …

Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly … laws had no effects on smoking but induced large and statistically significant reductions in public-place ETS exposure … indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places. …

this are biased. We show that using information on mortality, morbidity and smoking, it is possible to control for this …This paper considers the identification of the effect of tobacco on mortality. If individuals select into smoking … selection effect and obtain consistent estimates of the effect of smoking on mortality. We implement our method on Swedish data …

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 …