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The determinants of smoking initiation : empirical evidence for Germany
Göhlmann, Silja - 2007
This paper aims at analyzing the determinants of the decision to start smoking using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The data used is a combination of retrospective information on the age individuals started smoking and, by tracing back these individuals within the panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631293
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Smoke signals : the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior
Bantle, Christian; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002
using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, surveyed in 1999 including 813 youths aged 16 through 19. We find strong … evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases the probability that their children likewise become smokers. Youths … control for other socio-economic factors concerning the youths' smoking decision like household income, educational status and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435973
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Intergenerational effects of education on risky health behaviours and long-term health
Huebener, Mathias - 2017
This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented across federal states at different points in time, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011771748
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The effects of education on health : an intergenerational perspective
Huebener, Mathias - 2018
This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II, which was implemented across federal states at different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906241
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Ashes to ashes, time to time : parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking
Hübler, Philipp; Kucher, Andreas - 2016
Intergenerational correlations of risky health behaviors such as tobacco consumption are well established. However, there is still limited empirical evidence about the underlying process through which the transmission is driven. This paper aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443083
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Measuring peer effects on youth smoking behavior
Nakajima, Ryo (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper examines the role of peer effects in smoking behavior using data of middle and high school students in the United States. I present a random utility model that explicitly incorporates complementarity between individual and peer smokings. A Markov process model of smoking interactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001990751
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Gender differences in adolescents' socioemotional development and their later economic consequences
Azmat, Ghazala; Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2022
We exploit a large exogenous shock to study socioemotional development (SED) during adolescence and the consequences on relevant economic outcomes, focusing on gender differences. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German adolescents before and after a large macro shock (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471323
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Tobacco and alcohol : complements or substitutes? : a structural model approach to insufficient price variation in individual-level data
Tauchmann, Harald; Lenz, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2013
The question of whether alcohol and tobacco are consumed as complements or substitutes is crucial for determining the side-effects of anti-smoking policies. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco, and subsequently calculating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488475
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The health effects of smoking bans : evidence from German hospitalization data
Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012395
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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?
Marcus, Jan - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular, single individuals and those with lower health or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419964