Arbeitspapier
Smoking Initiation: Peers and Personality
Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this paper we exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health data, and extend the Spatial Autoregressive Model (SAR) model to deal with (i) endogenous peer selection, and (ii) unobserved contextual effects, in order to identify the endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are emotionally unstable. That is, individuals with "weaker" personalities are more vulnerable to peer pressure. This finding not only helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality affects later life health and socioeconomic outcomes.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 15-093/V
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Bayesian Analysis: General
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Health Behavior
- Thema
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Smoking
Peer effects
Personality
SAR model
Bayesian MCMC
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hsieh, Chih-Sheng
van Kippersluis, Hans
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hsieh, Chih-Sheng
- van Kippersluis, Hans
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2015
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