title: Air pollution, cigarette smoking, and the production of respiratory health.
abstract: Previous studies of the determinants of respiratory health have treated both smoking and air pollution as being exogenous. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate a simple production technology in which smoking is treated as being endogenously determined. Doing so, we find, increases the predicted absolute effects of smoking on respiratory health; relative to air pollution, smoking becomes a more important determinant when it is treated as an endogenous variable.
authors: Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Mullahy
authors: P R
authors: PR
authors: Portney
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution