Arbeitspapier

A decomposition analysis of cigarette consumption differences between male Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012

In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the number of cigarettes consumed daily between Turkish immigrants and Germans into a component reflecting differences in observed socio-economic characteristics and a component reflecting unobserved smoking behavior. Our results reveal that more than 50% of the differences in cigarette consumption between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans is attributable to observable characteristics.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 819

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Health and Inequality
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Thema
Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
count data models
Turkish immigrants
smoking behavior differentials

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dang, Rui
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dang, Rui
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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