Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000

Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000

The author tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases people's life expectancy. Smoking histories-reconstructed from retrospective data in the National Health Interview Surveys in the United States-show that after 1950,...

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Main Author: de Walque, Damien
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
ADDITION
AGED
BIRTH COHORT
CANCER
CIGARETTE SMOKING
COMPOSITION
DISEASES
HEALTH OUTCOMES
LATE TEENS
LIFE EXPECTANCY
LITERATURE
LUNG CANCER
MORTALITY
MORTALITY RISKS
NATIONAL HEALTH
OLDER PEOPLE
READING
SMOKERS
SMOKING
SMOKING CESSATION
SOCIAL SCIENCES
TOBACCO
TOBACCO CONSUMPTION
TOBACCO USE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/07/4960322/education-information-smoking-decisions-evidence-smoking-histories-1940-2000
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spelling okr-10986-138972021-04-23T14:03:20Z Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000 de Walque, Damien ACCESS TO INFORMATION ADDITION AGED BIRTH COHORT CANCER CIGARETTE SMOKING COMPOSITION DISEASES HEALTH OUTCOMES LATE TEENS LIFE EXPECTANCY LITERATURE LUNG CANCER MORTALITY MORTALITY RISKS NATIONAL HEALTH OLDER PEOPLE READING SMOKERS SMOKING SMOKING CESSATION SOCIAL SCIENCES TOBACCO TOBACCO CONSUMPTION TOBACCO USE The author tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases people's life expectancy. Smoking histories-reconstructed from retrospective data in the National Health Interview Surveys in the United States-show that after 1950, when information about the dangers associated with tobacco consumption started to diffuse, the prevalence of smoking declined earlier and most dramatically for college graduates. More educated individuals are also more likely to quit smoking: incidence analysis of smoking cessation shows a strong education effect. The instrumental variable approach, which relies on the fact that during the Vietnam War college attendance provided a strategy to avoid the draft, indicates that education does affect decisions about whether to smoke or stop smoking. 2013-06-13T15:18:28Z 2013-06-13T15:18:28Z 2004-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/07/4960322/education-information-smoking-decisions-evidence-smoking-histories-1940-2000 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13897 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 3362 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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en_US
topic ACCESS TO INFORMATION
ADDITION
AGED
BIRTH COHORT
CANCER
CIGARETTE SMOKING
COMPOSITION
DISEASES
HEALTH OUTCOMES
LATE TEENS
LIFE EXPECTANCY
LITERATURE
LUNG CANCER
MORTALITY
MORTALITY RISKS
NATIONAL HEALTH
OLDER PEOPLE
READING
SMOKERS
SMOKING
SMOKING CESSATION
SOCIAL SCIENCES
TOBACCO
TOBACCO CONSUMPTION
TOBACCO USE
spellingShingle ACCESS TO INFORMATION
ADDITION
AGED
BIRTH COHORT
CANCER
CIGARETTE SMOKING
COMPOSITION
DISEASES
HEALTH OUTCOMES
LATE TEENS
LIFE EXPECTANCY
LITERATURE
LUNG CANCER
MORTALITY
MORTALITY RISKS
NATIONAL HEALTH
OLDER PEOPLE
READING
SMOKERS
SMOKING
SMOKING CESSATION
SOCIAL SCIENCES
TOBACCO
TOBACCO CONSUMPTION
TOBACCO USE
de Walque, Damien
Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 3362
description The author tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases people's life expectancy. Smoking histories-reconstructed from retrospective data in the National Health Interview Surveys in the United States-show that after 1950, when information about the dangers associated with tobacco consumption started to diffuse, the prevalence of smoking declined earlier and most dramatically for college graduates. More educated individuals are also more likely to quit smoking: incidence analysis of smoking cessation shows a strong education effect. The instrumental variable approach, which relies on the fact that during the Vietnam War college attendance provided a strategy to avoid the draft, indicates that education does affect decisions about whether to smoke or stop smoking.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author de Walque, Damien
author_facet de Walque, Damien
author_sort de Walque, Damien
title Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000
title_short Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000
title_full Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000
title_fullStr Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000
title_full_unstemmed Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000
title_sort education, information, and smoking decisions : evidence from smoking histories, 1940-2000
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/07/4960322/education-information-smoking-decisions-evidence-smoking-histories-1940-2000
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13897
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