This paper presents micro-econometric evidence on peer effects in adolescent smoking between classmates aged 15 …/16 years across 13 European countries. Both instrumental variables and school fixed effects are used for identification …. Omitting school fixed effects, as in some existing IV studies of peer effects, is shown to lead to substantial overestimates …

We estimate the causal impact of school smoking bans in Germany on the propensity and intensity of smoking. Using … representative longitudinal data, we use variation in state, year, age cohort, school track, and survey time for implementation of … such smoking bans to identify the effects of interest. The estimates from our multipledifferences approach show that six to …

maternal smoking during pregnancy on infant birth weight across different the mother's age. By imposing a parametric … quantile treatment effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on her baby's birth weight across different age groups of … mothers. The results show strongly that the quantile effects of maternal smoking on low infant birth weight are negative and …

changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …

changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …