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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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Ashes to ashes, time to time : parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking

Hübler, Philipp; Kucher, Andreas - 2016

Intergenerational correlations of risky health behaviors such as tobacco consumption are well established. However, there is still limited empirical evidence about the underlying process through which the transmission is driven. This paper aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role...

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Tobacco and alcohol : complements or substitutes? : a structural model approach to insufficient price variation in individual-level data

Tauchmann, Harald; Lenz, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2013

The question of whether alcohol and tobacco are consumed as complements or substitutes is crucial for determining the side-effects of anti-smoking policies. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco, and subsequently calculating...

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The health effects of smoking bans : evidence from German hospitalization data

Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2018

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states along with the universe of hospitalizations from 2000-2008 and daily county-level weather and...

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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?

Marcus, Jan - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular, single individuals and those with lower health or...

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Smoking and the business cycle : evidence from Germany

Kaiser, Micha; Reutter, Mirjam; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2017

In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the effect on cigarette consumption of macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of which control for selection bias, indicate that the...

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The health effects of smoking bans : evidence from German hospitalization data

Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2018

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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?

Marcus, Jan - 2012

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,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506495

Unemployment and smoking : causation, selection, or common cause? ; evidence from longitudinal data

Schunck, Reinhard; Rogge, Benedikt G. - 2012

Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009633750

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