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Smoking and wage rates - Evidence from Japanese panel data

机译：吸烟率和工资率-来自日本面板数据的证据

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This paper analyzes smoking behavior and its effects on wage rate. It is widely known that smoking has negative health effects and to discourage the practice, governments frequently implement policies such as tax increases and restrictions on public smoking. To evaluate these policies, it is necessary to understand the economic benefits and costs of reducing the number of smokers. We conduct a panel data analysis while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and show that smoking is not the main factor causing observed wage differentials between smokers and non-smokers in Japan.As for the relationship between smoking and wages, we find that male smokers receive lower hourly wages than male nonsmokers. Smoking behavior generally depends on environmental, congenital, or social factors. These factors, however, do not only affect smoking behavior but also the wages of these individuals. To isolate the effect of smoking on wages, we control for individual heterogeneity using panel data to verify the existence of such an effect.Using tax change as an instrumental variable in the fixed effects model and several robustness checks, the results show that smoking has no statistically significant effect on wage rate. This suggests that smoking does not directly affect wages; rather, unobserved individual heterogeneity (other factors influencing both smoking and wages) leads to wage differences between smokers and nonsmokers. Nevertheless, smoking can affect wages in the long run through health problems. The nine-year panel data used in this research, however, is insufficient to capture the long-term indirect health effects. Thus, future research should consider analyzing indirect health effects using panel data spread across a wider time frame.
机译：本文分析了吸烟行为及其对工资率的影响。众所周知，吸烟会给健康带来负面影响，并且为了阻止这种行为，政府经常实施税收增加和限制公共吸烟等政策。要评估这些政策，有必要了解减少吸烟者人数的经济利益和成本。我们在控制未观察到的异质性的同时进行了面板数据分析，结果表明吸烟并不是造成日本吸烟者与非吸烟者之间工资差异的主要因素。至于吸烟与工资之间的关系，我们发现男性吸烟者每小时的收入较低工资高于男性不吸烟者。吸烟行为通常取决于环境，先天或社会因素。但是，这些因素不仅影响吸烟行为，而且影响这些人的工资。为了隔离吸烟对工资的影响，我们使用面板数据来控制个体异质性，以验证这种影响的存在性。在固定影响模型中使用税率变化作为工具变量并进行了多次稳健性检查，结果表明吸烟没有对工资率有统计学意义的影响。这表明吸烟不会直接影响工资；相反，未观察到的个体异质性（影响吸烟和工资的其他因素）会导致吸烟者和不吸烟者之间的工资差异。然而，从长远来看，吸烟会影响健康，从而影响工资。然而，这项研究中使用的为期9年的面板数据不足以捕捉长期的间接健康影响。因此，未来的研究应考虑使用分布在较宽时间范围内的面板数据来分析间接的健康影响。

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