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Alcohol Consumption, Smoking and Wages

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Hirschberg, J.
Lye, J.N.

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The good health of an individual is a combination of uncontrollable factors that includes genetics and random events and controllable factors through the regulation of activities such as smoking and drinking. Since the work of Grossman (1972) a significant relationship between health and earnings is predicted. In this paper, the 1995 Australian National Health Survey is used to simultaneously examine the effects of drinking and smoking on wages. To model the interaction of smoking with alcohol consumption separate models are fit for smokers and nonsmokers. These models account for potential selectivity bias resulting from the decision to smoke and endogeneity arising from a potential casual relationship between earnings and alcohol consumption.

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Paper provided by The University of Melbourne in its series Department of Economics - Working Papers Series with number 764.

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Date of creation: 2000
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Keywords: WAGES ; ALCOHOL ; CONSUMPTION ; MODELS;

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  3. Grossman, Michael, 1972. "On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 80(2), pages 223-55, March-Apr. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Joseph G. Hirschberg & Jenny N. Lye, 2004. "Inferences for the Extremum of Quadratic Regression Models," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 906, The University of Melbourne. [Downloadable!]
  2. Ours, J.C. van, 2002. "A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away," Discussion Paper 20, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  3. Lixin Cai, 2007. "Effects of Health on Wages of Australian Men," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2007n02, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Heineck, Guido & Schwarze, Johannes, 2003. "Substance Use and Earnings: The Case of Smokers in Germany," IZA Discussion Papers 743, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  5. van Ours, Jan C., 2002. "A pint a day raises a man’s pay; but smoking blows that gain away," IZA Discussion Papers 473, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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