?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Smoking+and+Endogenous+Mortality%3A+Does+Heterogeneity+in+Life+Expectancy+Explain+Differences+in+Smoking+Behaviour&rft.creator=Adda%2C+J&rft.creator=Lechene%2C+V&rft.description=This+paper+considers+the+identfication+of+the+effect+of+tobacco+on+mortality.+If+individuals+select+into+smoking+according+to+some+unobserved+health+characteristic%2C+then+estimates+of+the+effect+of+tobacco+on+health+that+do+not+account+for+this+are+biased.+We+show+that+using+information+on+mortality%2C+morbidity+and+smoking%2C+it+is+possible+to+control+for+this+selection+effect+and+obtain+consistent+estimates+of+the+effect+of+smoking+on+mortality.+We+implement+our+method+on+Swedish+data.+We+show+that+there+is+selection+into+smoking%2C+and+considerable+dispersion+around+the+average+effect%2C+so+that+health+policies+that+aim+at+decreasing+smoking+prevalence+and+quantities+smoked+might+have+less+effect+in+terms+of+average+number+of+years+of+life+gained+than+previously+estimated.+We+also+empirically+show+that+selection+into+smoking+has+increased+over+the+last+fifty+years+with+the+availability+of+information+on+the+dangers+of+smoking%2C+so+that+future+studies+comparing+smokers+and+non+smokers+will+spuriously+reveal+a+worsening+effect+of+tobacco+on+health+if+they+fail+to+control+for+selection.&rft.subject=Health%2C+Duration%2C+Smoking%2C+Selection%2C+Mortality%2C+Life+Expectancy%2C+Causality&rft.publisher=University+of+Oxford%2C+Department+of+Economics&rft.date=2004&rft.type=Working+%2F+discussion+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=++++(Economics+Series+Working+Papers++184).+University+of+Oxford%2C+Department+of+Economics%3A+Oxford%2C+UK.+(2004)+++++&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10140719%2F&rft.rights=open