the formation of public health policy. The paper compares England, Germany and Denmark who all adopted legislation on …After long trailing the American development on tobacco control, Europe has seen a big wave of public place smoking … bans in the past five years, beginning when Ireland took the plunge and banned all smoking in workplaces in 2004. Inspired …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …, although the effects in this case are weaker. -- Birth outcomes ; smoking ; mother's work ; sibling estimators ; instrumental …