Artikel
Does Job Loss Make You Smoke and Gain Weight?
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 socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking initiation. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. The applied regression-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy is robust against selection on observables and time-invariant unobservables. This paper provides an indirect test that the identifying assumption is not violated.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Economica ; ISSN: 0013-0427 ; Volume: 81 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 324 ; Pages: 626-648 ; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Health Behavior
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
smoking
health behavior
difference-in-difference
propensity score matching
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Arbeitslosigkeit
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ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
- DOI
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doi:10.1111/ecca.12095
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20.09.2024, 8:22 AM CEST
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Associated
- Marcus, Jan
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Time of origin
- 2014-10