Sinning, Mathias; Göhlmann, Silja; Bauer, Thomas - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2006
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 … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential …