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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Measuring Peer Effects on Youth Smoking Behavior

Nakajima, Ryo - 2011

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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...

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Socioemotional development during adolescence : evidence from a large macro shock

Azmat, Ghazala; Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2023

We exploit a large quasi-exogenous shock to study the development of socioemotional skills during adolescence and the consequences for long-term behavior and labor market outlook. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German adolescents before and after a large macro shock (the...

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Tobacco and Alcohol : Complements or Substitutes? - a Statistical Guinea Pig Approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2007

The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

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Changes in Compulsory Schooling and the Causal Effect of Education on Health : Evidence from Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen; Kemptner, Daniel - 2010

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach using as natural experiments several changes in compulsory schooling laws between 1949 and 1969. These law changes generate...

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

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2008

The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220678