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. …

In this paper it is argued that the slowness of the legislativesystem implies pre-commitment of legislation for at …

-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …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 …

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 …

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio …-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their … smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with …

smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become … unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio …, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 were used to examine the effect of unemployment on smoking probability and vice versa (65 …

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 …

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data …. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular …, single individuals and those with lower health or socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking …