Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter

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.

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Year of publication:	2006-08
Authors:	Loureiro, Maria L. ; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna ; Vuri, Daniela
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	youth smoking \| intergenerational habit transmission \| multivariate probit \| instrumental variables

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 2279 29 pages
Classification:	I1 - Health ; C5 - Econometric Modeling
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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