different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and …

We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self …-reported and biomarker measures of tobacco use, to examine the effects of state-level tobacco 21 (T21) laws on smoking and vaping …. T21 laws reduce self-reported cigarette smoking among 18-to-20 year olds, concentrated in males. Initial non-users who …

Using data from NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not … influence the impact of education on health behavior, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Accounting for cognitive … ability does not significantly alter the relationship between education and health behavior. Similarly, the impact of …

This paper examines the role of peer effects in smoking behavior using data of middle and high school students in the … smokings. A Markov process model of smoking interactions between individuals is presented, under the assumption that such … determined by the Markov process . The empirical results strongly support the presence of positive peer effects in smoking …