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Breaking bad habits by education – smoking dynamics among Swedish women
Author(s) -
Kjellsson Gustav,
Gerdtham UlfG,
Lyttkens Carl Hampus
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.1669
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , dynamics (music) , demographic economics , economics , demography , psychology , sociology , social science , pedagogy
In a dynamic Two‐Part Model (2PM), we find the effect of previous smoking on the participation decision to be decreasing with education among Swedish women, i.e. more educated are less state dependent. However, we do not find an analogous effect of education on the conditional intensity of consumption. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.