Pint a Day Raises Pay; Smoking Blows Gain Away

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 16 06:52:47 PDT 2002


"A Pint a Day Raises a Man's Pay; But Smoking Blows that Gain

Away"

BY: JAN C. VAN OURS

Tilburg University

Department of Economics

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:

http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=311433

Paper ID: CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3308

Date: April 2002

Contact: JAN C. VAN OURS

Email: Mailto:vanours at kub.nl

Postal: Tilburg University

Department of Economics

Room B528

P.O. Box 90153

5000 LE Tilburg, NETHERLANDS

Phone: +31 13 466 2880

Fax: +31 13 466 3042

ABSTRACT:

This Paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and

tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the

Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a

negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a

positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and

drinking do not affect the wages of females.

Keywords: Drinking, smoking, wages, earnings regressions



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