Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 238 (2018) 5, pp. 395-421
Abstract This paper empirically investigates biased beliefs about the risks of smoking. First, it confirms the established tendency of people to over estimate the lifetime risk of a smoker to contract lung cancer. In this paper’s survey, almost half of all respondents overestimate this risk....
