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

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

No 217, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

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

Keywords: smoking; lone parent; childhood family structure; divorce; unobserved heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J12 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 : Anh. p.
Date: 2009
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