In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the … German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. The results reveal that school starting …

students using tobacco products. We examine the impact that the laws have on the smoking behavior of students, teachers, and … other school staff by estimating difference-in-differences models that exploit the time variation in adoption of the laws … across states. We generally find that these laws do not impact smoking behavior, although we do find some evidence suggesting …

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 …