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Survey Data on Smoking Behaviour
Description
The Data is the subset of the original data from Mullahy (1985) and Mullahy (1997). The dataset is from
Wooldridge (2009) used for researches on cross sectinal data studies.
The dataset is also available from Smoke from the package sampleSelection.
Usage
data(Smoke, package = "EMSS")
Format
a dataframe with 807 observations and 8 variables as below:
- educ
years of schooling (numeric)
- age
age of respondents (numeric)
- cigpric
cigarette price(state), cents per pack (numeric)
- income
annual income in us dollar (numeric)
- restaurn
state smoking restrictions for restaurants exist or not (categorical)
- smoker
smoked at least once or not (categorical)
- cigs_intervals
number of cigarettes smoked per day, with interval boundaries: 0,5,10,20,50 (numeric)
- cigs
number of cigarettes smoked per day (numeric)
Source
Wooldridge's dataset is available on https://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocins/smoke.html#biblio.
References
Jeffrey, M. Wooldridge (2009) Introductory Econometrics: A modern approach, Canada: South-Western Cengage Learning.
Mullahy, John (1985) Cigarette Smoking: Habits, Health Concerns, and Heterogeneous Unobservables in a Microeconometric Analysis of Consumer Demand, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia.
Mullahy, John (1997), Instrumental-Variable Estimation of Count Data Models: Applications to Models of Cigarette Smoking Behavior, Review of Economics and Statistics, 79, 596-593.