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Do Smokers Make More Money?

Eric Barker
December 25, 2010

No.

Via Columbia University:

The researchersâ primary interest was tracking wages after respondents started their first jobs, and they found a clear correlation between wage growth and smoking. Munasinghe and Sicherman found a 4.7 percent gap (after controlling for a range of family and individual characteristics) between smokersâ and nonsmokersâ first wages (what people were paid at their first full-time job).

Though this result was consistent with many previous findings that smokers earn less than nonsmokers, earlier studies didnât take wage dynamics into account. Because Munasinghe and Sicherman did consider wage dynamics, their results were more definitive: over the first decade of employment, the difference in wages increased dramatically â nonsmokersâ wages grew to be anywhere from 15 to 40 percent higher than those of smokers. The far-reaching NLSY data allowed the researchers to eliminate variables other than smoking â including sex, age, race, health, schooling, cognitive ability, religion and neighborhood income â that might correlate with the wage changes they observed.

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Title Do Smokers Make More Money?
Author Eric Barker
Date December 25, 2010 4:54 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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