Love conquers all but nicotine: Spousal peer effects on the decision to quit smoking
| Autor: | Ali Palali, Jan C. van Ours |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department of Economics, Research Group: Economics, Applied Economics |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Nicotine Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Decision Making Quit smoking 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult jel:I0 Surveys and Questionnaires 0502 economics and business medicine Humans 050207 economics Spouses Netherlands smoking cessation causal partner effects 030503 health policy & services Health Policy jel:C31 05 social sciences Causal effect Nicotine Addiction causal partner effecta behavior and behavior mechanisms Smoking cessation Female Peer effects 0305 other medical science Psychology Algorithms Clinical psychology medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Health Economics, 26(12), 1710-1727. Wiley Health Economics, 26(12), 1710-1727. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1057-9230 |
| Popis: | If two partners smoke, their quit behavior may be related through correlation in unobserved individual characteristics and through common shocks. However, there may also be a causal effect whereby the quit behavior of one partner is affected by the quit decision of the other partner. If so, there is a spousal peer effect on the decision to quit smoking. We use data containing retrospective information of Dutch partnered individuals about their age of onset of smoking and their age of quitting smoking. We estimate mixed proportional hazard models of starting rates and quit rates of smoking in which we allow unobserved heterogeneity to be correlated across partners. Using a timing of events approach, we determine whether the quitting-to-smoke decision of one partner has a causal effect on the quitting-to-smoke decision of the other partner. We find no evidence of substantial spousal peer effects in the decision to quit smoking. Apparently, love conquers all but nicotine addiction. Copyright © 2017 John WileySons, Ltd. |
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