Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000

Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000

This paper tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases life expectancy. The analysis of smoking histories shows that after 1950, when information about the dangers of tobacco started to diffuse, the prevalence of smoking declined earlier and most dramatically for college gradua...

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Main Author: de Walque, Damien
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Health Production I120
Analysis of Education I210
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5600
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spelling okr-10986-56002021-04-23T14:02:23Z Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000 de Walque, Damien Health Production I120 Analysis of Education I210 This paper tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases life expectancy. The analysis of smoking histories shows that after 1950, when information about the dangers of tobacco started to diffuse, the prevalence of smoking declined earlier and most dramatically for college graduates. I construct panels based on smoking histories in an attempt to isolate the causal effect of smoking from the influence of time-invariant unobservable characteristics. The results suggest that, at least among women, college education has a negative effect on smoking prevalence and that more educated individuals responded faster to the diffusion of information on the dangers of smoking. 2012-03-30T07:33:37Z 2012-03-30T07:33:37Z 2010 Journal Article Journal of Human Resources 0022166X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5600 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article United States
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Analysis of Education I210
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Analysis of Education I210
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Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000
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description This paper tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases life expectancy. The analysis of smoking histories shows that after 1950, when information about the dangers of tobacco started to diffuse, the prevalence of smoking declined earlier and most dramatically for college graduates. I construct panels based on smoking histories in an attempt to isolate the causal effect of smoking from the influence of time-invariant unobservable characteristics. The results suggest that, at least among women, college education has a negative effect on smoking prevalence and that more educated individuals responded faster to the diffusion of information on the dangers of smoking.
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author de Walque, Damien
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title Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000
title_short Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000
title_full Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000
title_fullStr Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000
title_full_unstemmed Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000
title_sort education, information, and smoking decisions : evidence from smoking histories in the united states, 1940-2000
publishDate 2012
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