maternal smoking during pregnancy on infant birth weight across different the mother's age. By imposing a parametric … quantile treatment effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on her baby's birth weight across different age groups of … mothers. The results show strongly that the quantile effects of maternal smoking on low infant birth weight are negative and …

divorce) affect individuals’ smoking behavior and body weight. Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, this study accounts for … probability to start or quit smoking and lead to changes in body weight. In particular, smoking behavior and body weight are …; separation from a partner leads to weight loss, increased smoking initiation, and decreased smoking cessation …

Smoking and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Because smoking is subject … to heavy government intervention, understanding the effect of smoking on obesity is important in determining the extent … for changes in smoking, and survey completion to instrument for misreporting. Starting with the baseline two-stage least …