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Published on: February 21, 2011
Air pollution, cigarette smoking, and the production of respiratory health
1Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106.
Abstract:
Previous studies of the determinants of respiratory health have treated both smoking and air pollution as being exogenous. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate a simple production technology in which smoking is treated as being endogenously determined. Doing so, we find, increases the predicted absolute effects of smoking on respiratory health; relative to air pollution, smoking becomes a more important determinant when it is treated as an endogenous variable.
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