academic researchers. Among the various factors that people believe influence youth substance use, peer effects are identified … usage among American teenagers using perceived peer behavior in National Longitudinal Survey Youth 97. School and household …

In this paper, I use a social interactions framework to detect whether individual smoking decisions are influenced by … classmate smoking decisions. There are several large challenges in addressing this question, including the endogeneity of school … that the current results suggest smaller social interactions in adolescent smoking decisions than some previous work …

smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even though disutility from smoking exceeds utility from social interaction …. Overall, smoking is unduly often accepted when accommodating smoking is the social norm. The introduction of smoking and non-smoking … areas does not overcome this specific inefficiency. We conclude that smoking bans may represent a required (second …

peer effects in smoking. We address the endogeneity of peers by looking at the impact of workplace smoking bans on spousal … and peer group smoking. Using these bans as an instrument, we find that individuals whose spouses smoke are 40 percent … smoking bans and individual income becomes stronger at higher levels of aggregation. This social multiplier could explain the …

smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even though disutility from smoking exceeds utility from social interaction …. Overall, smoking is unduly often accepted when accommodating smoking is the social norm. The introduction of smoking and non-smoking … areas does not overcome this specific inefficiency. We conclude that smoking bans may represent a required (second …