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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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How Does Heterogeneity Shape the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health Satisfaction?

Jones, Andrew M.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2007

Individual heterogeneity plays a key role in explaining variation in self-reported well-being and, in particular, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data...

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Measuring peer effects on youth smoking behavior

Nakajima, Ryo - 2004

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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Substance use and earnings : the case of smokers in Germany

Schwarze, Johannes; Heineck, Guido - 2003

This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and longitudinal models are estimated separately for males and females. Results for the cross-sectional models confirm prior analyses inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on...

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Who Smokes and How Much? - Empirical Evidence for Germany

Göhlmann, Silja - 2007

Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking campaigns. However, this purpose requires knowledge...

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

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - 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-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

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

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - 2006

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276357

Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? A statistical Guinea Pig approach

Requate, Till; Göhlmann, Silja; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2006

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296265

Pollution exposure and infant health: Evidence from Germany

Coneus, Katja; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2010

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution levels. These data come from the Federal Environment...

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