Gender differences in smoking behavior
By: by Thomas Bauer, Silja Göhlmann, Mathias Sinning
Contributors: Göhlmann, Silja
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2259; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2259
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Smoking; Sex differences
Description: "This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in the number of cigarettes daily smoked that can be explained by differences in observable characteristics from the part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and women rather than differences in characteristics"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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