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models to health care expenditure. This paper revisits the debate in the context of female smoking and drinking, and …There is a well-established debate between Heckman sample selection and two-part models in health econometrics …
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This paper analyses decisions regarding smoking and drinking for a sample of Irish women. Double-hurdle models are … complementarities between smoking and drinking a model which allows for the joint determination of smoking and drinking is also …
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drinking in the past year, and marijuana smoking in the past month. The research highlights the need to account for unobserved … effects underline the relative importance of fathers in mitigating cigarette smoking in the past month, regularly alcohol …
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daily or regular drinking. The effects appear to be due to changes in peer networks and disposable income. We find no … evidence of a direct impact of schooling on rates of time preference, attitudes towards risk or perceptions that drinking or … smoking are harmful to health, though our measures of these factors are more limited. …
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Although economists have sought to link the health behaviours or outcomes of socially connected individuals for several decades, there has been a recent resurgence in interest and expansion in empirical techniques. Studies that attempt to estimate social network effects in health decisions face...
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-related behavior, namely physical exercise, dietary habits, smoking, drinking, and sleep duration among Japanese men aged 20 ?40 years … and sleep duration are affected by unemployment, while there are no observed effects on dietary habits, smoking, and … frequency of drinking. Being unemployed has positive effects on frequency of exercise and sleep duration. When an individual …
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, and 1998. The lifestyle variables are smoking, drinking, marijuana use, and cocaine use. The analysis addresses the joint …
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positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …
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Institutional information does not seem to prevent drug experimentation. We use Add Health panel data (1994-1996) to examine risky behaviour by adolescents (the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana). We find that such behaviours are correlated with the (lagged) behaviour of three peer...
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positive wage effect of about the same size.The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …
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