Individual cigarette consumption and addiction: A flexible limited dependent variable approach
提出一个灵活的受限因变量模型，同时分析吸烟量及戒烟决策，考虑戒烟的固定成本和成瘾对参与及消费的独立影响，基于1984-85年英国健康与生活方式调查数据，优于传统嵌套模型。
A variety of limited dependent variable models have been used in microeconometric studies of smoking. We present a general model of the simultaneous decisions of how much to smoke and whether to quit, which allows a more flexible parameterization and distributional assumptions. The model incorporates the fixed costs associated with quitting and allows for the separate influence of addiction on participation and consumption. The model is applied to data on smoking from the 1984-85 UK Health and Lifestyle Survey, and is shown to outperform a range of nested models that have been used extensively in the empirical literature.