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Working Papers # 402 | | Title: | Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter | | Authors: | by Maria Loureiro, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Daniela Vuri | | Date: | 19-10-2009 | | Keywords: | youth smoking, intergenerational habit transmission, multivariate probit, instrumental variables | | JEL Codes: | I1, C5 | | Abstract: | | We use instrumental variable methods to investigate whether the impact of parental
smoking habits on their children's smoking decisions is a causal one. We find evidence of
same-sex role models in two-parent households: mothers play a crucial role in determining their daughters' smoking decisions, while fathers' smoking habits are primarily imitated by their sons. | | Download this paper in a PDF file (258.47 Kb) |  Back to the list |
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