TY  - JOUR
AU  - Levine,Phillip B.
AU  - Gustafson,Tara A.
AU  - Velenchik,Ann D.
TI  - More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Labor    Market Outcomes
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5270
PY  - 1995
Y2  - September 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5270
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5270.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Phillip B. Levine
Department of Economics
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
Tel: 781/283-2162
Fax: 781/283-2177
E-Mail: plevine@wellesley.edu
AB  - This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the effect of smoking on wages and employment.  The panel nature and household structure of these data enable us to implement methods to account for differences in observed and unobserved individual characteristics that may be correlated with both smoking and wages.  Changes in wages associated with changes in smoking behavior and models that utilize sibling comparisons are estimated to address the potential heterogeneity problem.  Estimates from alternative specifications all indicate that smoking reduces wages by roughly 4-8%.  No robust, statistically significant effect on employment is observed.
ER  -