Objective: To examine the long-term response of respiratory cancer mortality to the changes of real cigarette excise taxes.Design: First, using a panel of state-level data from 1954 to 2005, this study performs unit root co-integration tests. Second, the analysis utilizes the Fully Modified...

We use the matched mother-child data from the 2000 wave of the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 (NLSY79) to assess the impact of full-time working mothers on children's body mass index (BMI) and the likelihood of becoming overweight. Parametric, semi-parametric and non-parametric...