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

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins () and Thomas Siedler ()

No 217, SOEPpapers 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)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea, nep-ltv and nep-pke
Date: 2009
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Working Paper: The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults (2009)
Working Paper: The effect of lone motherhood on the smoking behaviour of young adults (2009)
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