Darden, Michael; Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2020
Cigarette smokers earn significantly less than nonsmokers, but the magnitude of the smoking wage gap and the pathways … employer preferences, neglecting the dynamic nature of human capital development and addiction. In this paper, we formulate a … Cohort, and we simulate the model under counterfactual scenarios that isolate the contemporaneous effects of smoking from …