2012年7月
Does smoking affect schooling? Evidence from teenagers in rural China
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
- ,
- ,
- 巻
- 31
- 号
- 4
- 開始ページ
- 584
- 終了ページ
- 598
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.04.005
- 出版者・発行元
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Youth smoking can biologically reduce learning productivity. It can also reduce youths' expected returns to education and lower their motivation to go to school, where smoking is forbidden. Using rich household survey data from rural China, this study investigates the effect of youth smoking on educational outcomes. Youth smoking is clearly an endogenous variable; to obtain consistent estimates of its impact, we use counts of registered alcohol vendors and a food price index as instrumental variables. Since the variable that measures smoking behavior is censored for non-smoking adolescents, we implement a two-step estimation strategy to account for the censored nature of this endogenous regressor. The estimates indicate that smoking one cigarette per day during adolescence can lower students' scores on mathematics tests by about 0.08 standard deviations. However, we find no significant effect of youth smoking on either Chinese test scores or total years of schooling. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
-
- DOI : 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.04.005
- ISSN : 0167-6296
- eISSN : 1879-1646
- PubMed ID : 22664773
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000308517800004