are still in education to control for selection and account for differences in health-conscious behavior between publicly …

method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German … Socio-Economic Panel data, we combine matching and difference-in-differences estimation, employing the post-double-selection …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio …-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their … smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with …

unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio … smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become …, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 were used to examine the effect of unemployment on smoking probability and vice versa (65 …

unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio … smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become …, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 were used to examine the effect of unemployment on smoking probability and vice versa (65 …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in … the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and …

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio …-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their … smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with …

health care costs. In this context, we use German micro data to identify determinants of smoking, drinking and obesity. Our …. Furthermore, we find gender-specific differences in behaviour as well as differences in the determinants of drinking, smoking and …