A Pint a Day Raises a Man's Pay; But Smoking Blows that Gain Away

Jan van Ours

No 3308, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This Paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females.

Keywords: Drinking; Smoking; Wages; Earnings regressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 D12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-04
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