, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on the diversity of the diet in Russia between 1994 and 2005. All those … strong habits in drinking and smoking, and the absence of habits in fat and protein consumption. We also found evidence of … behavior. Similarly, men show higher habit persistence for alcohol and cigarette consumption. The results also suggest that …

panel data from the Add Health survey to examine risky behavior (the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana) by … cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social interactions make consumption sticky. We use detailed … group behavior. Peer group effects are strongest for alcohol use, and young males are more influential than young females …

This paper analyses decisions regarding smoking and drinking for a sample of Irish women. Double-hurdle models are … complementarities between smoking and drinking a model which allows for the joint determination of smoking and drinking is also …

This paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the … Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a … positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

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 …

multivariate 5 equation probit model. In that model, lifestyles (diet, exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking) are a function of …The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic … a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken …

We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health … 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 …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …

mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the … deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

contributing to rising obesity in Russia during the transition from a planned to a market economy. Recent individual level data … from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for 1994 and 2004 show that diet/caloric intake, smoking, gender and … education are important detfirminants of obesity in Russia. Empirical results strongly support our model for production of …