positive wage effect of about the same size.The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

selection effect and obtain consistent estimates of the effect of smoking on mortality. We implement our method on Swedish data …. We show that there is selection into smoking, and considerable dispersion around the average effect, so that health … years of life gained than previously estimated. We also empirically show that selection into smoking has increased over the …

selection effect and obtain consistent estimates of the effect of smoking on mortality. We implement our method on Swedish data …. We show that there is selection into smoking, and considerable dispersion around the average effect, so that health … years of life gained than previously estimated. We also empirically show that selection into smoking has increased over the …

The classical Heckman (1976, 1979) selection correction estimator (heckit) is misspecified and inconsistent if an … interaction of the outcome variable and an explanatory variable matters for selection. To address this specification problem, a …

the smoking cessation rate, ii) offering evidence on alternative interventions for health authorities, and iii) examining … and comparing three groups of smokers with varying lengths of their smoking career (including one group that has smoked … cessation interventions are discussed. -- Smoking behaviour ; Cigarette cessation ; Duration model ; Quitting hazard ; Long …

In this paper, we measure the impact of a number of information providers on youth smoking. Using French … information provider on youth smoking. Other results seem counterintuitive. For instance, school nurses and gynaecologists have a … show that, indeed, these information variables are correlated with smoking behaviour through unobservable heterogeneities …

We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic … Addiction. Future teenage smoking rates and average consumption are the inputs to the model; consumption growth coeffcients for …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and …