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“Smoking your child’s job away”: Parental smoking during one’s childhood and the probability of being employed in adulthood

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  • Kushneel Prakash

    (Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, the University of Melbourne)

  • Sanjesh Kumar

    (Department of Economics, Monash University)

Abstract

We examine the relationship between parental smoking in childhood and the probability of being employed in adulthood. To do so, we use 18 waves of the nationally representative longitudinal data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. We find that parental smoking in childhood is an important factor contributing to the likelihood of individuals being unemployed in adulthood. Our estimate suggests that individuals whose parents smoked during their childhood have 1.7 percentage points lower probability of being employed in adulthood than individuals of non-smoking parents. This finding is robust to the use of bounding approach to test for coefficient stability and matching methods to attribute causal interpretation. We find that self-health and mental health, along with non-cognitive skills in the form of emotional stability and conscientiousness in adulthood are important channels through which exposure to parental smoking in childhood influences the probability of employment in adulthood.

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  • Kushneel Prakash & Sanjesh Kumar, 2021. "“Smoking your child’s job away”: Parental smoking during one’s childhood and the probability of being employed in adulthood," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2021n13, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
    • Handle: RePEc:iae:iaewps:wp2021n13
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    1. Churchill, Rejoice E.A. & Asante, Augustine, 2024. "Locus of control and the long-term effects of parental smoking on mental health," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 361(C).
    2. Prakash, Kushneel & Kumar, Sanjesh, 2025. "Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 56(C).
    3. Hayward, Mathew & Cheng, Zhiming & Zhe Wang, Ben, 2022. "Disrupted education, underdogs and the propensity for entrepreneurship: Evidence from China’s sent-down youth program," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 151(C), pages 33-39.
    4. Prakash, Kushneel & Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa & Smyth, Russell, 2022. "Are you puffing your Children's future away? Energy poverty and childhood exposure to passive smoking," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
    5. Fujun Chen & Dianxi Wang, 2024. "Gender and Urban-Rural Differences in the Impact of Parents’ Problematic Behaviors on Children’s School-to-Work Transition," SAGE Open, , vol. 14(3), pages 21582440241, September.
    6. Yu, Wei & Stephan, Ute & Bao, Jia, 2023. "Childhood adversities: Mixed blessings for entrepreneurial entry," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 38(2).

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    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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