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13322 Cecily Josten, Grace Lordan The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we exploit variation ...
(June 2020)
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11631 Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth The Health Effects of Smoking Bans: Evidence from German Hospitalization Data
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 ...
(June 2018)
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (11), 1738-1753)
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16775 Chiara Costi, Giuseppe Migali, Eugenio Zucchelli Intergenerational Persistence of Education, Smoking and Birth Weight: Evidence from Three Generations
The identification of factors affecting birth weight is a key issue in human development due to its established associations with long-term health, educational and labour-market outcomes. This paper ...
(January 2024)
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10134 Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality
This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male ...
(August 2016)
(substantially revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Social Norms and Teenage Smoking' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 222, 122-132)
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12194 Kerry Anne McGeary, Dhaval M. Dave, Brandy Lipton, Timothy Roeper Impact of Comprehensive Smoking Bans on the Health of Infants and Children: Evidence from the U.S.
As evidence of the negative effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has mounted, an increasingly popular public policy response has been to impose restrictions on smoking through 100% smoke-free ...
(March 2019)
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9144 Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia, Daniel I. Rees Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data
Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. ...
(June 2015)
(published as 'Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3 (1), 60-75)
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9249 Gianluigi Coppola, Niall O'Higgins, Claudio Pinto Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking of Tomorrow: Income and Risky Choices amongst Young Adults in the UK
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by “lifestyle” choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered ...
(August 2015)
(published in: O’Higgins, N. and G. Coppola (eds), Youth unemployment and the crisis: Unemployment, education and health in Europe, Routledge , Abdingdon, 2016)
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15656 Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Michael Pesko, Serena Phillips The Long-Term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal Smoking
This study examines the long-term link between in-utero cigarette taxes and adult prenatal smoking. We use U.S. birth certificate records to demonstrate that exposure to higher in-utero cigarette ...
(October 2022)
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10860 Xi Chen Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, ...
(June 2017)
(paper 1 (results on smoking) published as 'Do skewed sex ratios among children promote parental smoking? Longitudinal evidence from rural China' in: Journal of Substance Abuse, 2018, 23 (4), 366-370; paper 2 (results on alcohol abuse) published as 'Does daughter deficit promote paternal substance use? Evidence from China' in: Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 2018, 2:47)
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2219 Paul Frijters, Michael A. Shields, Stephen Wheatley Price, Jenny Williams Quantifying the Cost of Passive Smoking on Child Health: Evidence from Children’s Cotinine Samples
Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children’s exposure to passive smoke, and then uses econometric techniques to provide a new ...
(July 2006)
(revised version published in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics In Society, 174 (1) 2011, 195-212)
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