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dc.contributor.authorAristei, Davidde
dc.contributor.authorPieroni, Lucade
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-01T03:45:00Zde
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-29T22:19:22Z
dc.date.available2012-08-29T22:19:22Z
dc.date.issued2008de
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/24059
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses the determinants of tobacco expenditures for a sample of Italian households. A Box-Cox double-hurdle model adjusted for heteroscedasticity is estimated to account separate individual decisions concerning smoking participation and tobacco consumption and to correct for non-normality in the bivariate distribution of the error terms. Nested univariate and bivariate models are found to be excessively restrictive, supporting the adequacy of a generalized specification. Estimation results show that consumption decisions are significantly affected by income and demographic characteristics. In particular, income positively impacts tobacco expenditure, while participation probability substantially declines as age increases. The existence of significant gender differences in both smoking participation and tobacco consumption patterns is found, while high education and white collar occupation reduce the likelihood to smoke and tobacco expenditure levels. Single adult households have a lower probability of smoking initiation even if, conditional on smoking, they consume more. Finally, complementarity between tobacco and alcohol beverages suggests the necessity of joint public health strategies.en
dc.languageende
dc.subject.ddcWirtschaftde
dc.subject.ddcSociology & anthropologyen
dc.subject.ddcEconomicsen
dc.subject.ddcSoziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.subject.otherdouble-hurdle models; tobacco consumption; limited dependent variables; Box-Cox transformation; C24; D12
dc.titleA double-hurdle approach to modelling tobacco consumption in Italyen
dc.description.reviewbegutachtet (peer reviewed)de
dc.description.reviewpeer revieweden
dc.source.journalApplied Economicsde
dc.source.volume40de
dc.publisher.countryUSA
dc.source.issue19de
dc.subject.classozWirtschaftssoziologiede
dc.subject.classozEconomic Statistics, Econometrics, Business Informaticsen
dc.subject.classozWirtschaftsstatistik, Ökonometrie, Wirtschaftsinformatikde
dc.subject.classozSociology of Economicsen
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-240595de
dc.date.modified2011-10-17T13:00:00Zde
dc.rights.licencePEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)de
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ssoar.contributor.institutionhttp://www.peerproject.eu/de
internal.status3de
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dc.type.documentjournal articleen
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dc.rights.copyrightfde
dc.source.pageinfo2463-2476
internal.identifier.classoz10905
internal.identifier.classoz10205
internal.identifier.journal21de
internal.identifier.document32
internal.identifier.ddc330
internal.identifier.ddc301
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00036840600970229de
dc.description.pubstatusPostprinten
dc.description.pubstatusPostprintde
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