Mental health and smoking behavior

Liyuan Yang and Vasileios Zikos

Economic Modelling, 2023, vol. 126, issue C

Abstract: Smoking is a major public health concern with significant social and economic costs. A large literature has established that smoking behavior and mental health are correlated. This study considers the role of mental health in causing people to smoke, and examines how a specific traumatic event, a close friend's death, which negatively affects mental health, affects the tendency to smoke. The results show that good mental health reduces the probability of being a smoker. This conclusion is robust to various ways of addressing the endogeneity of mental health, including the use of both internal and external instruments, two-stage residual inclusion estimation, and dynamic panel methods. As such it underscores the power of people's mental health in shaping their smoking behavior.

Keywords: Well-being; Mental health; Smoking behavior; Panel data; HILDA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106407

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