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Is smoking behavior culturally determined? Evidence from British immigrants
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin, 2013.
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Abstract
- We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these trajectories to measure culture by cohort and cohort-age, and more accurately relative to the extant literature. Our proxy predicts smoking participation of second-generation British immigrants but not that of non-British immigrants and natives. Researchers can apply our strategy to estimate culture effects on other outcomes when retrospective or longitudinal data are available.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.od......1687..d633fd947bc98be87fd88746b07e54df