Bauer, Thomas; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour 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 … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential …