for excessive food intake), alcohol intake and smoking might explain the persistence of health inequalities. We … empirically examine data from two countries, England and Spain, which exhibit rising obesity levels, as well as smoking and …

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …

broad array of fixed effects to mitigate the impact of sorting into universities and endogenous residential selection. The …

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to …, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behaviour and we … investigate the sensitivity of smoking cessation to changes in excise taxes and their interaction with smoking intensity. …