consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, the paper focuses on studying the smoking intensity of British … cigarette consumption. Results show that HE is endogenous with smoking. Once endogeneity is controlled for, HE is found to have … a higher negative effect on smoking than in models where it is treated as exogenous …

repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner's past smoking, which is … consistent with endogenous effects. However, after controlling for individual effects, we find that own current smoking and …

contribute to scarcity of research in health economics to determine causal factors of smoking and formulate more effective health …

scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German …-double-selection method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking … probability and intensity. Smoking relapses and decreased smoking cessation drive the effects. Effects are stronger if the partner …

scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German …-double-selection method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking … probability and intensity. Smoking relapses and decreased smoking cessation drive the effects. Effects are stronger if the partner …