The Wage Effects of Personal Smoking History

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3389050
AutoresIrina B Grafova (0000-0002-0134-0600), Frank P Stafford
Año2009
Volumen62
Número3
Páginas381-393
Fecha de publicación2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/001979390906200307
PMID23882133
OpenAlexW2123149371
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas22

This study explores determinants of the wage penalty borne by smokers. The authors reconstruct individual smoking histories by pooling PSID (Panel Study of Income Dynamics) data for 1986-2001. They find no wage gap between former smokers and those who had never smoked, but statistically significant wage gaps between smokers who would continue smoking and three other groups: those who would later quit smoking, those who had quit smoking already, and those who never smoked. The wage penalty for smoking, observed in the 1986 cross-section, is largely driven by those who would continue smoking over the years 1986-2001. These results suggest that the smoker/nonsmoker wage differential observed at any given time may be driven by a non-causal explanation rather than by smoking per se. For example, persistent smokers may be characterized by myopia that leads to reduced investment in health capital and firm-specific or other human capital

Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Labour economics · Panel data · Panel Study of Income Dynamics · Pooling · Smoking history · Wage · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine