Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions: Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000

Autor/in	de Walque, Damien
Titel	Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions: Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940-2000
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 45 (2010) 3, S.682-717 (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Smoking; Incidence; College Graduates; Educational Attainment; Decision Making; Health Promotion; Public Health; United States History; Influences; Gender Differences; Access to Information; Age Differences; High School Graduates; Health Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rauchen; Vorkommen; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Gesundheitswesen; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten
Abstract	This paper tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases life expectancy. The analysis of smoking histories shows that after 1950, when information about the dangers of tobacco started to diffuse, the prevalence of smoking declined earlier and most dramatically for college graduates. I construct panels based on smoking histories in an attempt to isolate the causal effect of smoking from the influence of time-invariant unobservable characteristics. The results suggest that, at least among women, college education has a negative effect on smoking prevalence and that more educated individuals responded faster to the diffusion of information on the dangers of smoking. (Contains 9 figures, 22 footnotes, and 9 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10