Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 3, pp. 591-601
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on...