Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter

By Maria L. Loureiro, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Daniela Vuri. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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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 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.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Health, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/88824e1ca632453658507eee59811532b8780b13

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In Gender Studies

1. P. Devereux
2. Sandra E. Black

In Health

1. Sandra E. Black
2. P. Devereux
3. T. Fujiwara
4. David J. Deming
5. D. Almond

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Sandra E. Black
2. P. Devereux
3. Rebecca Dizon-Ross
4. B. Mazumder
5. Magne Mogstad
6. Debopam Bhattacharya

Citations in the corpus

• Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility (2010, methodology): “Loureiro et al. (2006) examine intergenerational transmission of smoking habits using the BHPS (1994-2002) and find 18 year olds are about twice as likely to smoke if both parents smoke than if neither parent smokes.”