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A Pint a Day Raises a Man's Pay; But Smoking Blows that Gain Away

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …

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Bauer, Thomas; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behaviour between men …

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Does Marriage Make You Healthier?

Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliy; Llull, Joan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

driven by selection into marriage at younger ages, while there might be a protective effect of marriage at older ages. We … analyze how selection and protective effects of marriage show up in the data. …

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Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight

del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

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Risky sexual behavior: biological markers and self-reported data

Corno, Lucia; De Paula, Áureo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Self-reported data on sexual behaviors have been criticized to be unreliable. In recent studies, risky sexual behaviors have therefore been measured using biomarkers for curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Nevertheless, no previous research have tested how reliable such data are. In...

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Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability

Blass, Asher; Lach, Saul; Manski, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

When data on actual choices are not available, researchers studying preferences sometimes pose choice scenarios and ask respondents to state the actions they would choose if they were to face these scenarios. The data on stated choices are then used to estimate random utility models, as if they...

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Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach

Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; Schmidt, Christoph M; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by … tobacco are complements. Hence, we conclude that successful anti-smoking policies will not result in the unintended side …

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Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds

Blundell, Richard William; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection …

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Financial Structure and Macroeconomic Volatility: Theory and Evidence

Huizinga, Harry; Zhu, Dantao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper presents a simple model capturing differences between debt and equity finance to examine how financial structure matters for macroeconomic volatility. Debt finance is relatively cheap in the sense that debt holders need to verify relatively few profitability states, but debt finance...

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Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models

Bauer, Thomas; Sinning, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper, a decomposition method for Tobit-models is derived, which allows the differences in a censored outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by differences in observed characteristics and a part attributable to differences in the estimated...

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