The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

No 4392, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany.

Keywords: smoking; divorce; lone parent; unobserved heterogeneity; childhood family structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J12 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2009-09
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Published - published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (11), 1377-1384

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