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Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter
by
Maria L. Loureiro, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Daniela Vuri
(August 2006)
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 717-743
Abstract:
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.
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 2279 
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