aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking. The analysis is … preference for both, mothers and fathers. That is, an increasing level of patience of parents is associated with a lower smoking … influence of health-related mediating factors such as parental smoking and alcohol consumption. It turns out that role modeling …

women during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine the effects of these policy changes on smoking, weight gain and other … associated with approximately a 3 percent increase in smoking and a small increase in pregnancy weight gain for most of the … sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …

channels through which early life exposure to passive smoking increases the likelihood of being in energy poverty. Our results … have important implications for early life interventions to address the deficits caused by exposure to passive smoking. …

attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …