Biases in Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.creator	Anger, Silke	-
dc.creator	Kvasnicka, Michael	-
dc.date	2006	-
dc.date.accessioned	2013-10-16T07:00:30Z	-
dc.date.available	2013-10-16T07:00:30Z	-
dc.date.issued	2013-10-16	-
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18547	-
dc.identifier	ppn:522079156	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18547	-
dc.description	Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for the past smoking behavior of individuals. 2SLS earnings estimates show that the smoking wage penalty is reduced by as much as a third, if past smoking of individuals is controlled for. Our results also point to significant wage gains for individuals that quit smoking, a finding that is of substantial interest, given the lack of evidence on the earnings effects of smoking cessation.	-
dc.language	eng	-
dc.publisher	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin	-
dc.relation	DIW-Diskussionspapiere 654	-
dc.rights	http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen	-
dc.subject	C51	-
dc.subject	I19	-
dc.subject	J31	-
dc.subject	ddc:330	-
dc.subject	Smoking	-
dc.subject	wages	-
dc.subject	earnings regressions	-
dc.title	Biases in Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty	-
dc.type	doc-type:workingPaper	-
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