Cognitive ability and teen smoking

Hendrik Jürges () and Sophie-Charlotte Meyer ()
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Hendrik Jürges: University of Wuppertal
Sophie-Charlotte Meyer: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin
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The European Journal of Health Economics, 2020, vol. 21, issue 2, No 11, 287-296

Abstract: Abstract We use data on 11–15-year-old boys in the West Bank to study the empirical link between cognitive ability and health behavior, specifically (teen) smoking. Adjusting for both age in months and grade level allows us to effectively shut down any simultaneous effect of maturation and schooling on cognitive ability and smoking. We find that those at the lower end of the cognitive ability distribution are more than twice as likely to smoke than those at the upper end (approximately 25 versus 10%) also after adjusting for parental background and peer composition in a generalized propensity score approach. Further, we find that the cognitive ability-smoking gradient is fairly flat at the lower end of the cognitive ability distribution and steep at the upper end.

Keywords: Cognitive ability; Health behavior; Teen smoking; Generalized propensity score; J1; J2; I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-019-01127-1

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