Smoke: Survey Data on Smoking Behaviour

In SangkyuStat/EMSS: Some EM-Type Estimation Methods for the Heckman Selection Model

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.

SangkyuStat/EMSS documentation built on Jan. 1, 2022, 7:19 p.m.