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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: de Walque, Damien
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13897