Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers
研究发现吸烟者选择风险更高的工作，但获得的工资补偿却低于非吸烟者，这与传统补偿性工资差异理论不符。作者构建模型解释这一现象，并得到实证支持。
Using a large data set, the authors find that smokers select riskier jobs, but receive lower total wage compensation for risk than do nonsmokers. This finding is inconsistent with conventional models of compensating differentials. The authors develop a model in which worker risk preferences and job safety performance lead to smokers facing a flatter market offer curve than nonsmokers. The empirical results support the theoretical model. Smokers are injured more often controlling for their job's objective risk and are paid less for these risks of injury. Smokers and nonsmokers, in effect, are segmented labor market groups with different preferences and different market offer curves. © 2001 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology