TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bauer, Thomas K.
AU  - Göhlmann, Silja
AU  - Sinning, Mathias
        TI  - Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior
        PY  - 2006/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2259
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2259
        AB  - This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior 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 behavior between men and women rather than differences in characteristics.
        KW  - gender differences
KW  - Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
KW  - SOEP
KW  - smoking
KW  - count data models
        ER  -