Smoke gets in your shape: The effects of smoking on body weight in Indonesia

Adrianna Bella, Temesgen Kifle and Kam Ki Tang
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Adrianna Bella: Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives, Jakarta, Indonesi

No 646, Discussion Papers Series from University of Queensland, School of Economics

Abstract: Literature has shown inconclusive evidence regarding the relationship between smoking and body weight. Utilising panel data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) 1993–2014, this study sets out to re-investigate this relationship in Indonesia—a country with the world’s highest male smoking rate. We estimate the impacts of current and former smoking behaviours on BMI by addressing the endogeneity issues using fixed effects instrumental variables (FEIV) and fixed effects (FE) methods, respectively. We find no causal contemporaneous impact of smoking and smoking intensity on male and female BMI, however, we find that quitting smoking has positive but small effects on male BMI, and the magnitude of the effect is positively related to the previous smoking intensity, the duration of smoking, and the duration since quitting.

Keywords: smoking; body weight; BMI; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-08
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