Impact of Education on Lifestyles: What Do Longitudinal Data Show?

This essay investigates the effect of education on different lifestyle variables using NLSY79 panels for 1992, 1994, and 1998. The lifestyle variables are smoking, drinking, marijuana use, and cocaine use. The analysis addresses the joint determination of lifestyle variables within the framework of the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) model. Unobserved heterogeneity is controlled by the robust fixed-effects model extended to SUR model. It is found that educational attainment has no significant effect on the lifestyle choices of individuals.

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Year of publication:	2011-04
Authors:	Danyal, Shah ; Fayissa, Bichaka ; Lee, Jong-Sung
Institutions:	Economics and Finance Department, Jennings A. Jones College of Business
Subject:	Education \| Smoking \| Drinking \| Marijuana and Cocaine Use \| Fixed-Effects Model \| SUR Model

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 201102
Classification:	I1 - Health ; I2 - Education ; I10 - Health. General ; I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior ; C30 - Econometric Methods: Multiple/Simultaneous Equation Models. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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