The role of education in the production of health: An empirical analysis of smoking behavior

Tenn, Steven; Herman, Douglas A.; Wendling, Brett W.

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.03.001

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“…Similar to Farrell and Fuchs (1982) and Tenn et al (2010), we find no effect of education on the decision to start smoking.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…In their seminal paper, Farrell and Fuchs (1982) concluded that differences in smoking behavior at age 24 could be fully explained by smoking differences at age 17, when all subjects were still in approximately the same grade. Tenn et al (2010) elaborate on this idea by exploiting small education differences between similarly selected groups that are one year apart in their life cycle.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, individuals may decide on education and smoking at early stages of life, when education itself is not completed. We thus build upon Farrell and Fuchs (1982) and Tenn et al (2010), acknowledging the fact that one should exploit differences in smoking and education across the lifecycle. Our analysis also gives additional insight on the importance of time preferences of individuals -as "third factors" -to explain smoking starting and quitting decisions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The effect of education on smoking behavior: new evidence from smoking durations of a sample of twins

2014

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This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking. We use longitudinal data of Australian twins, and estimate duration models for smoking and nonsmoking durations. Our approach enables us to take account of the endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing of starting smoking versus that of completion of education. We find that one additional year of education reduces the duration of smoking with 9 months but has no effect on the decision to start smoking.This finding is robust with respect to different identifying assumptions and seems largely confined to male twins.

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“…Similar to Farrell and Fuchs (1982) and Tenn et al (2010), we find no effect of education on the decision to start smoking.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 63%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The effect of education on smoking behavior: new evidence from smoking durations of a sample of twins

2014

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“…In line with the second prediction, various studies report positive education effects on health behaviors [4,10,40,50,61]. For instance, using data on a major schooling information campaign in the Dominican Republic, [36] find that schooling significantly reduces smoking and delays the onset of daily or regular drinking among male students.…”

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confidence: 76%

The health knowledge mechanism: evidence on the link between education and health lifestyle in the Philippines

Hoffmann

Lutz

2018

Eur J Health Econ

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Studies have found substantial differences in health-related behavior and health care usage between educational groups, which may explain part of the well-documented educational gradient in health. The allocative efficiency hypothesis offers a behavioral explanation for these reported differences. According to this theory, the educated possess more health knowledge and information, allowing them to make better health choices. We perform a mediation analysis to study this mechanism using original survey data from the Philippines, a lower-middle-income country. As an extension of previous empirical research, we construct a comprehensive index that captures different dimensions of health knowledge. Using generalized propensity scores, we find strong support for the allocative efficiency argument. Schooling is significantly associated with health knowledge levels, which explain up to 69% of the education effect on health lifestyle. This corresponds to twice the mediation strength of economic resources, suggesting an important role of this factor in explaining education effects on health decisions.

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“…Although variations in daily cigarette smoking fit the pattern predicted by TDI, the precise mechanisms behind educational differences in cigarette smoking have been the object of much debate (Cutler and Lleras-Muney, 2010;de Walque, 2007;Tenn et al, 2010). It is likely that different mechanisms have been important at different stages of the epidemic.…”

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Tracing the cigarette epidemic: An age-period-cohort study of education, gender and smoking using a pseudo-panel approach

Vedøy¹

2014

Social Science Research

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(online), with the title: Tracing the cigarette epidemic: An age-period-cohort study of education, gender and smoking using a pseudo-panel approach http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X14001033Tracing the cigarette epidemic: An age-period-cohort study of education, gender and smoking using a pseudopanel approach AbstractThis study examined if temporal variations in daily cigarette smoking and never-smoking among groups with different levels of education fit the pattern proposed by the theory of diffusion of innovations (TDI), while taking into account the separate effects of age, period and birth cohort (APC). Aggregated data from nationally representative interview surveys from Norway from 1976 to 2010 was used to calculate probabilities of smoking using an APC approach in which the period variable was normalized to pick up short term cyclical effects. Results showed that educational differences in smoking over time were more strongly determined by birth cohort membership than variations in smoking behavior across the life course. The probability of daily smoking decreased faster across cohorts among higher compared to lower educated. In contrast, the change in probability of never having smoked across cohorts was similar in the two education groups, but stronger among men compared to women. Moreover, educational differences in both daily and never-smoking increased among early cohorts and leveled off among late cohorts. The results emphasizes the importance of birth cohort for social change and are consistent with TDI, which posits that smoking behavior diffuse through the social structure over time.

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The role of education in the production of health: An empirical analysis of smoking behavior

Cited by 31 publications

References 43 publications

The effect of education on smoking behavior: new evidence from smoking durations of a sample of twins

The effect of education on smoking behavior: new evidence from smoking durations of a sample of twins

The health knowledge mechanism: evidence on the link between education and health lifestyle in the Philippines

Tracing the cigarette epidemic: An age-period-cohort study of education, gender and smoking using a pseudo-panel approach

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