Does smoking.make one dumber? : evidence from teenagers in rural China.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2010

• Country: China
• Document Type: Working Paper
• Theme: Social Change
• Authors: Zhao, M., Glewwe, P., Konishi, Y.

Abstract

Youth smoking can biologically reduce learning productivity. It can also reduce youths’ 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, the authors used counts of registered alcohol vendors and a food price index as instrumental variables.

Citation

Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

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Does smoking.make one dumber? : evidence from teenagers in rural China.

Published 1 January 2010