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Risky Lifestyle Choices of Women With Breast Cancer

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  • Chloé Michel
  • Michelle Sovinsky
  • Steven Stern

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Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on breast cancer diagnosis and lifestyle choices, we estimate how being diagnosed influences smoking, drinking, and exercising habits for more than 8; 000 women over the period 1999 to 2011. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, persistence in potentially addictive behaviors, and correlation across behaviors, we find that the impact of a diagnosis has a different effect on smoking, drinking, and exercising behavior. Furthermore, the impact depends upon the recency of the diagnosis. Recently diagnosed women exercise and smoke less but do not change their drinking habits relative to healthy women. Our approach provides insight into what extent women who are faced with negative information about life expectancy take this into consideration when deciding to engage in risky behaviors that might further affect their survival in a significant way.

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  • Chloé Michel & Michelle Sovinsky & Steven Stern, 2021. "Risky Lifestyle Choices of Women With Breast Cancer," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2021_069v2, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:crctr224_2021_069v2
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    Keywords

    breast cancer; risky health behavior; health economics;
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions

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