smoking behaviour of his or her peers, empirical evidence on the magnitude of such peer effects, and even on their existence … variety of identification strategies. This paper exploits a rich source of individual level, school-based, survey data on … estimates of peer effects between classmates in adolescent smoking for 75,000 individuals across 26 European countries, using …

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

trade off between current utility derived from smoking and a mortality risk increasing with age. Individuals with a longer … potential life expectancy have more incentive to cut back on smoking and thus self select out of smoking. Using detailed data on … mortality, morbidity and smoking we are able to identify this selection effect. We empirically evaluate its importance in …

This paper studies spousal peer effects on the smoking behaviour and their implication for the health of children … through passive smoking. Smoking decisions are modeled as equilibrium strategies of an incomplete information game within the … couple. Using data from the French Health Survey 2002-2003, we identify two distinct effects linked to spousal behaviour: a …

This paper studies spousal peer effects on the smoking behaviour and their implication for the health of children … through passive smoking. Smoking decisions are modeled as equilibrium strategies of an incomplete information game within the … couple. Using data from the French Health Survey 2002-2003, we identify two distinct effects linked to spousal behaviour: a …

aspects of nutritional behavior are important inputs to the production of health. A dynamic panel data model is used to … strong habits in drinking and smoking, and the absence of habits in fat and protein consumption. We also found evidence of … differences in the demand for fat and cigarettes. Older consumers seem to be more persistent in their drinking and smoking …

follow-up to, the Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) to investigate the social gradient in cancer, considering both lifetime …

particular interest in this context due to their unique position to pass health capital down to the next generation. This paper … reviews the literature on the tax and price responsiveness of pregnant women to smoking during pregnancy. I first discuss the … continue to review overall trends in the tax responsiveness of smoking during pregnancy as well as results by subgroups. Next …