Education and smoking: Were Vietnam war draft avoiders also more likely to avoid smoking?
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Education and smoking: were Vietnam war draft avoiders also more likely to avoid smoking?
We use the Vietnam war draft avoidance behavior documented by Card and Lemieux [Card, D., Lemieux, T., May 2001. Did draft avoidance raise college attendance during the Vietnam war? American Economic Review 91 (2), 97-102] as a quasi experiment to infer causation from education to smoking and find strong evidence that education, whether measured in years of completed schooling or in educational...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health Economics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0167-6296
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2007.03.004