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Title: Gender Differences in Smoking Behaviour

Author(s): Thomas Bauer, Silja G�hlmann and Mathias Sinning

Publication Date: September 2006

Keyword(s): Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, count data models, gender differences, smoking and SOEP

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in the number of cigarettes daily smoked that can be explained by differences in observable characteristics from the part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behaviour between men and women rather than differences in characteristics.

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Bauer, T, G�hlmann, S and Sinning, M. 2006. 'Gender Differences in Smoking Behaviour'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5848