A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. …

inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is …This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and … found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for …

Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A … promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking … waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual …

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 …

on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with … knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for …We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to …

and mortality and implement several panel data estimation approaches. We find that heat has a significant positive impact …In this study we analyze the relationship between heat events and mortality in Germany. The main research questions are …: Does heat lead to rising mortality and if yes, are the effects persistent or compensated for in the near future …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …