We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual … model. -- Smoking ; panel data ; selectivity …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual …

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. We find that for both smoking … regulations, social norms on and tolerance towards smoking, and awareness of its health risks …