improves and there is evidence of heterogeneity in this relationship across race, education level, age group and motherhood …

and theoretical settings of the literature, we rely on the effects of the INPRES program on girls' education and the …

women during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine the effects of these policy changes on smoking, weight gain and other … associated with approximately a 3 percent increase in smoking and a small increase in pregnancy weight gain for most of the … sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …

of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … towards the problem of passive smoking. One of our main contributions is the use of a large nationally representative sample … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …

policy response has been to impose restrictions on smoking through 100% smoke-free bans (comprehensive smoking bans). Yet … sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … shifting their consumption of cigarettes from public venues that impose a comprehensive smoking ban to smoking at home, then …

-in-difference methodology, we find a reduction in drinking and smoking for 16 year olds. These results are robust to the inclusion of state …