Journal
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Volume 72, Issue 6, Pages 717-743Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00603.x
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology [SEJ2007-62500]
- Barcelona GSE Research Network
- Government of Catalonia
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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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