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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20400| Title: | Substance use and earnings : the case of smokers in Germany |
| Keywords: | I12 J30 J70 ddc:330 smoking earnings regressions Rauchen Einkommen Lebenszyklus Geschlecht Lohn Schätzung Deutschland |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and longitudinal models are estimated separately for males and females. Results for the cross-sectional models confirm prior analyses inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for unobservable individual heterogeneity, the result implies that male smokers are individuals with higher time preference rates. At the early stage of the age-earnings course higher earnings are therefore found for smokers because young male non-smokers only are about to start off their occupational career. Women?s earnings, however, are not affected by smoking behavior. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20400 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20400 ppn:362032300 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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