TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Josten, Cecily
AU  - Lordan, Grace
        TI  - The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
        PY  - 2020/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13322
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13322
        AB  - We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we exploit variation in the timing and location of these bans to establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big Five personality traits. We are particularly interested in conscientiousness, given the evidence that it is a good proxy for self-control. Overall, we find that a one standard deviation increase in conscientiousness leads to a 1.4 percentage point reduction in the probability of smoking after the ban. Notably, this is the only Big Five personality trait that interacts with the smoking ban. This finding is very robust to different specifications.
        KW  - Five Factor Model
KW  - personality
KW  - smoking ban
KW  - conscientiousness
        ER  -