| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21937 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21937 |
| The Effect of Smoking on Obesity: Evidence from a Randomized Trial | |
| Charles Courtemanche; Rusty Tchernis; Benjamin Ukert | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-02-01 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper aims to identify the causal effect of smoking on body mass index (BMI) using data from the Lung Health Study, a randomized trial of smoking cessation treatments. Since nicotine is a metabolic stimulant and appetite suppressant, quitting or reducing smoking could lead to weight gain. Using randomized treatment assignment to instrument for smoking, we estimate that quitting smoking leads to an average long- run weight gain of 1.8-1.9 BMI units, or 11-12 pounds at the average height. These results imply that the drop in smoking in recent decades explains 14% of the concurrent rise in obesity. Semi-parametric models provide evidence of a diminishing marginal effect of smoking on BMI, while subsample regressions show that the impact is largest for younger individuals, females, those with no college degree, and those in the lowest quartile of baseline BMI. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21937 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579611 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Charles Courtemanche,Rusty Tchernis,Benjamin Ukert. The Effect of Smoking on Obesity: Evidence from a Randomized Trial. 2016. |
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| w21937.pdf（375KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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