Smoking habits
Subtitle: like father, like son, like mother, like daughter
By: by Maria L. Loureiro, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Daniela Vuri
Contributors: Sanz de Galdeano, Anna
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2279; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2279
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Smoking; Parental influences
Description: "We analyze data from the 1994-2002 waves of the British Household Panel Survey to explore the influence of parental smoking habits on their children's smoking decisions. In order to account for the potential endogeneity of parental smoking habits we use instrumental variable methods. We find that mothers play a crucial role in determining their daughters' smoking decisions, while fathers' smoking habits are transmitted primarily to their sons"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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