Gender differences in smoking behavior
利用德国社会经济面板数据，提出适用于计数数据模型的Blinder-Oaxaca分解方法，将每日吸烟量的性别差异分解为可观测特征差异和系数差异两部分，发现系数差异是主要来源。
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.