Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are … helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are … helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

heterogeneity in peer effects with respect to personality. The results indicate that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are …Social interactions are widely recognized to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … uptake of smoking. We exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health data, and extend the Spatial …

Social interactions are widely recognized to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … better able to resist peer pressure in the uptake of smoking. We exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health …) unobserved contextual effects, in order to identify heterogeneity in peer effects with respect to personality. The results …

Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are … helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

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 …

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …

We estimate the causal impact of school smoking bans in Germany on the propensity and intensity of smoking. Using … such smoking bans to identify the effects of interest. The estimates from our multipledifferences approach show that six to … ten years after intervention, propensity towards smoking is reduced by 7-16 percent, while the number of smoked cigarettes …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the effect of smoking on the income of workers in the Brazilian labor market … individual predisposition that would influence the choice of smoking. Originality/value The relevance of the present study is …