potential channels through which marriage affects smoking, i.e., consumption externalities (one spouse's smoking affects the … other spouse's welfare), altruism (one spouse reduces smoking in response to the other spouse's bad health), and learning … about risks of smoking from the health experience of one's spouse. We find spousal health does not affect smoking due to …

example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang … choosing the treatment (e.g. marriage or gang membership) may have differed in their criminality from those who did not even in …

reprioritization, one of the modalities for realizing fiscal space for health. Theory and cross-country empirical analyses do not … provide clear, cut explanations for the observed variations in government prioritization of health. Standard economic theory …Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

Alamar and Glantz interpret smoking in restaurants as a market failure, and they claim that restaurants should welcome … government laws that disallow smoking in all restaurants. Contrary to their claims, restaurant owners do have an incentive to … eliminate smoking if doing so raises the value of their restaurants. In restaurants, smokers do not impose negative …

In the September 2007 critique of Alamar and Glantz, I argued that smoking in restaurants (and bars) does not … us a meaningful picture of what happened before and after the California smoking ban. Here I show that Alamar and Glantzâ …

restaurant owner can compensate a patron for any health costs related to second hand smoke, therefore it is not possible for the …