Smoking habits: like father, like son, like mother, like daughter

Publication type

Research Paper

Series Number

2279

Series

IZA Discussion Papers

Authors

Publication date

August 1, 2006

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.

Subject

Link

- http://ftp.iza.org/dp2279.pdf

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