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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Economica ; ISSN: 0013-0427 ; Volume: 81 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 324 ; Pages: 626-648 ; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Classification
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Subject
Job loss
smoking
health behavior
difference-in-difference
propensity score matching
Arbeit
Arbeitslosigkeit
Rauchen
Gesundheit

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Marcus, Jan
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Wiley-Blackwell
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
(where)
Oxford
(when)
2014-10

DOI
doi:10.1111/ecca.12095
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  • Marcus, Jan
  • Wiley-Blackwell
  • ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

Time of origin

  • 2014-10

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