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December 13, 2022
This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through exogenous health shocks, affects people's longevity expectations. We find that smokers react differently to health shocks than do those who quit smoking or ne ...
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December 13, 2022
This study tests the reliability of the most important subjective risk assessment a person can make: an expectation about personal longevity. Using four waves of the Health and Retirement Survey we tested whether longevity expectations match actual mortali ...
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December 13, 2022
This study describes government interventions during the 1900s and their effects on cigarette consumption within a rational addiction framework. With annual data for the 20th century, impacts of specific antismoking information events disappear. U.S. per c ...
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