Christelis, Dimitris; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1077-1093
We provide new cross-country evidence on smoking persistence in Europe, which can be due to both true state dependence … find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is generally much smaller, but still important, when unobserved … individual heterogeneity is accounted for, regardless of residential location. We uncover large differences in true state …