One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Artikel

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals’ smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, our difference-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the population. However, our estimates point to important heterogeneous effects. Individuals who go out more often to bars and restaurants did adjust their smoking behavior. Following the ban, they became less likely to smoke and also smoked less.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Journal of Health Economics ; ISSN: 0167-6296 ; Volume: 30 ; Year: 2011 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 591-601 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Thema: Public smoking bans ; Smoking ; Cigarette consumption ; Treatment effects ; Rauchen ; Konsumentenverhalten ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Anger, Silke ; Kvasnicka, Michael ; Siedler, Thomas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Elsevier ; ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (wo): Amsterdam
• (wann): 2011-05

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.03.003
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/68596
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ