title: Gender differences in smoking behavior.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: RWI Essen, Germany. bauer@rwi-essen.de
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: Silja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Göhlmann
authors.forename: Mathias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sinning
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment / Q000145:classification; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009790:Occupations / Q000145:classification; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D015995:Prevalence; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data