This paper aims to identify the causal effect of smoking on body weight using data from the Lung Health Study, a … randomized trial of smoking cessation treatments. We find evidence that quitting smoking leads to an average long-run weight gain … of around 11-12 pounds, and that the drop in smoking in recent decades explains 14% of the concurrent rise in obesity …

Cigarette smokers earn significantly less than nonsmokers, but the magnitude of the smoking wage gap and the pathways … Cohort, and we simulate the model under counterfactual scenarios that isolate the contemporaneous effects of smoking from … for unobserved heterogeneity in the joint determination of smoking, human capital, labor supply, and wages, suggest that …

unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects … instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a … cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. We find that mental distress significantly increases the prevalence and …

We study smoking persistence, which can be due to both true state dependence and individual unobserved heterogeneity … selection methods, applied to both smoking participation and cigarette consumption. We find that for both smoking decisions true …

health risks associated with smoking. …We provide new cross-country evidence on smoking persistence in Europe, which can be due to both true state dependence … methods, applied to both the smoking participation and the cigarette consumption decision. We find that for both smoking …

We provide new cross-country evidence on smoking persistence in Europe, which can be due to both true state dependence … methods, applied to both the smoking participation and the cigarette consumption decision, which we allow to be correlated. We … find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is generally much smaller, but still important, when unobserved …

, and 1998. The lifestyle variables are smoking, drinking, marijuana use, and cocaine use. The analysis addresses the joint …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual … model. -- Smoking ; panel data ; selectivity …

literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed …