Cigarette smokers earn significantly less than nonsmokers, but the magnitude of the smoking wage gap and the pathways by which it originates are unclear. Proposed mechanisms often focus on spot differences in employee productivity or employer preferences, neglecting the dynamic nature of human...

We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents. Further assumptions make the model applicable to the...

Tobacco control policies have proliferated in many countries in recent years, in particular youth access laws and public smoking bans. The effectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set...

Die deutsche Zigarettenindustrie lässt seit August 2004 die Zahl der nicht in Deutschland versteuerten Zigaretten durch das Marktforschungsinstitut Ipsos schätzen (Ipsos-Studie). Diese Studie basiert auf einer Auswertung von monatlich 12.000 an Verwertungsstellen des Dualen Systems gesammelten...