Unemployment and Risky Behaviours: The Effect of Job Loss on Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption

Jérôme Ronchetti () and Anthony Terriau
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Jérôme Ronchetti: MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon

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Abstract: This article analyses the impact of a transition from employment to unemployment on alcohol and tobacco consumption, and more specifically on risky behaviours. With cross-section data, we observe significant differences between the employed and the unemployed both in terms of frequency and quantity consumed. However, this association between unemployment and risky behaviours disappears when we use longitudinal data and a difference-in-differences propensity score matching approach to reduce the selection bias. Our results suggest that, in the French context, the event of unemployment does not lead to a significant increase in risky behaviours.

Date: 2021-04-20
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Published in Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2021, 522-523, pp.23-41. ⟨10.24187/ecostat.2021.522d.2039⟩

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DOI: 10.24187/ecostat.2021.522d.2039

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