Working Paper
Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter
Maria L. Loureiro, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Daniela Vuri
CESifo, Munich, 2009
CESifo Working Paper No. 2782
CESifo, Munich, 2009
CESifo Working Paper No. 2782
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.
CESifo Category
Labour Markets
Labour Markets
Keywords: youth smoking, intergenerational habit transmission, multivariate probit, instrumental variables
JEL Classification: C500,I100