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models to health care expenditure. This paper revisits the debate in the context of female smoking and drinking, and …
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models to health care expenditure. This paper revisits the debate in the context of female smoking and drinking, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328382
Although economists have sought to link the health behaviours or outcomes of socially connected individuals for several decades, there has been a recent resurgence in interest and expansion in empirical techniques. Studies that attempt to estimate social network effects in health decisions face...
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-related behavior, namely physical exercise, dietary habits, smoking, drinking, and sleep duration among Japanese men aged 20 ?40 years … and sleep duration are affected by unemployment, while there are no observed effects on dietary habits, smoking, and … frequency of drinking. Being unemployed has positive effects on frequency of exercise and sleep duration. When an individual …
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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 …
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drinking in the past year, and marijuana smoking in the past month. The research highlights the need to account for unobserved … effects underline the relative importance of fathers in mitigating cigarette smoking in the past month, regularly alcohol …
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, and 1998. The lifestyle variables are smoking, drinking, marijuana use, and cocaine use. The analysis addresses the joint …
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for one vital health-related behavior, smoking. The decomposition uses an underlying model that considers both individual … heterogeneity and smoking persistence, showing that the largest contributions to the pro-rich smoking inequality come from years of …
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' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle … Survey (HALS) dataset and its July 2009 follow-up, allowing for unobservable factors to affect decisions regarding smoking …
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I estimate the effect of opposite-gender peer drinking on individual risky sexual behavior among Czech youth. The …. As opposed to Waddell (2010), I find that female drinking affects the male propensity to have unprotected sex, while male … drinking does not have such an effect on female behavior. This finding corresponds to the fact that females have usually older …
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