Arbeitspapier

Health selection and the effect of smoking on mortality

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for individuals in good non-smoking health.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6206

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Thema
life expectancy
tobacco
confounding
Rauchen
Gesundheitsvorsorge
Sterblichkeit
Schätzung
Schweden

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Adda, Jérôme
Lechene, Valerie
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201107556
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Adda, Jérôme
  • Lechene, Valerie
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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