This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states along with the universe of hospitalizations … from 2000-2008 and daily county-level weather and pollution data. Smoking bans in bars and restaurants have been effective …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach using as natural experiments several changes in compulsory schooling laws … weight problems for both sexes. On the other hand, we find little evidence for a causal effect of education on smoking …

the formation of public health policy. The paper compares England, Germany and Denmark who all adopted legislation on …After long trailing the American development on tobacco control, Europe has seen a big wave of public place smoking … bans in the past five years, beginning when Ireland took the plunge and banned all smoking in workplaces in 2004. Inspired …

The 16 German federal states introduced smoking bans on different dates during 2007 and 2008. These bans restricted … smoking in enclosed public places, particularly in restaurants and bars. This study examines the effects of smoking bans on … self-assessed health. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), difference-in-differences estimations provide …

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood … age reduces the long-term risk to smoke, improves long-term health, and affects physical rather than mental health. In …

sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal …