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008 060724s2006 gw sb 000 0 eng
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040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aHD5701
245 00 $aQuantifying the cost of passive smoking on child health$h[electronic resource] :$bevidence from children's cotinine samples /$cby Paul Frijters ...[et al.].
260 $aBonn, Germany :$bIZA,$c[2006]
490 1 $aDiscussion paper ;$vno. 2219
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 7/24/2006.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children's exposure to passive smoke, and then uses econometric techniques to provide a new economic quantification of the impact of this exposure on child health. Such information is valuable to policy-makers when deciding upon the amount of resources to direct towards the problem of passive smoking. One of our main contributions is the use of a large nationally representative sample of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic characteristics. We also utilise an objective measure of children's exposure, namely, the level of cotinine -- a metabolite of nicotine - in their saliva. We find that both parental and child carer smoking behaviour, as well as area deprivation, are major risk factors in determining children's exposure to passive smoke. Accounting for the potential measurement error in cotinine in our estimations, we have calculated that for a child who is exposed to a high number of passive smoking risk factors, the shadow price or income-equivalence of such exposure is Đ16,000 (US$30,000) per year. A further policy-related result is that comprehensively controlling for child passive smoking does not explain the observed gradient between household income and child health"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
650 0 $aPassive smoking$zEngland.
650 0 $aChildren$xHealth and hygiene$zEngland.
700 1 $aFrijters, Paul.
830 0 $aDiscussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;$vno. 2219
856 40 $uhttp://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=2219