Does smoking really harm your earnings so much? biases in current estimates of the smoking wage penalty

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 561-564

  Anger, Silke ^a   Kvasnicka, Michael ^b  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b RWI Essen   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAVINGS; SMOKING; WAGE;

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EID: 77951058047     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850802260846     Document Type: Article

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