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 … methods, applied to both the smoking participation and the cigarette consumption decision, which we allow to be correlated. We … find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is generally much smaller, but still important, when unobserved …