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

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

June 1, 2010

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 suggestive evidence of same-sex role models in two-parent households: mothers play a more crucial role in determining their daughters’ smoking decisions, whereas fathers’ smoking habits are primarily imitated by their sons. This same-sex parent-child link is no longer at play for teenagers living in single-mother households, for whom the influence of their only cohabiting parent turns out to be predominant independently of gender.

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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volume

Volume: 72 (6): 717-743

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00603.x

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