birthwt {micsr}

Cigarette smoking and birth weight

Description

a cross-section of 1388 individuals from 1988

Format

a tibble containing:

• birthwt: birth weight

• cigarettes: number of cigarettes smoked per day during pregnancy

• parity: birth order

• race: a factor with levels "other" and "white"

• sex: a factor with levels "female" and "male"

• edmother: number of years of education of the mother

• edfather: number of years of education of the father

• faminc: family income

• cigtax: per-pack state excise tax on cigarettes

Source

kindly provided by John Mullahy

References

Mullahy J (1997). “Instrumental-Variable Estimation of Count Data Models: Applications to Models of Cigarette Smoking Behavior.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 79(4), 586-593.