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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Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13897 |