Holdings: Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000

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Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions : Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000

The author tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases people's life expectancy. Smoking histories-reconstructed from retrospective data in the National Health Interview Surveys in the United States-show that after 1950,...

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Main Author:	de Walque, Damien
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCESS TO INFORMATION ADDITION AGED BIRTH COHORT CANCER CIGARETTE SMOKING COMPOSITION DISEASES HEALTH OUTCOMES LATE TEENS LIFE EXPECTANCY LITERATURE LUNG CANCER MORTALITY MORTALITY RISKS NATIONAL HEALTH OLDER PEOPLE READING SMOKERS SMOKING SMOKING CESSATION SOCIAL SCIENCES TOBACCO TOBACCO CONSUMPTION TOBACCO USE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/07/4960322/education-information-smoking-decisions-evidence-smoking-histories-1940-2000 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13897

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/07/4960322/education-information-smoking-decisions-evidence-smoking-histories-1940-2000
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13897