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Sorting into Secondary Education and Peer Effects in Youth Smoking

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  • Filip Pertold

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The start of daily smoking is often shortly after the resorting of students between elementary and secondary education. This paper employs a novel identification strategy based on this resorting, in order to estimate peer effects in youth smoking. We address the reflection problem by peers’ pre-secondary-school smoking, which is not influenced by the current social interaction of classmates. The self-selection of students into secondary schools, based on their unobserved preferences toward smoking, is controlled for using own pre-secondary school behavior and the existing prevalence of smoking among older schoolmates. The empirical findings based on data from the Czech Republic, where the prevalence of youth smoking prevalence reached high levels, suggest that male youth smoking is significantly affected by classmates, while female smoking is not.

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  • Filip Pertold, 2009. "Sorting into Secondary Education and Peer Effects in Youth Smoking," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp399, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    • Handle: RePEc:cer:papers:wp399
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    Cited by:

    1. Karel Janda & Martin Strobl, 2019. "Smoking Czechs: Modelling Tobacco Consumption and Taxation," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2019(1), pages 3-29.
    2. Nikaj Silda, 2017. "Peer Effects and Youth Smoking in the European Global Youth Tobacco Survey," Review of Economic Perspectives, Sciendo, vol. 17(3), pages 219-238, September.

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    Keywords

    Peer effects; smoking; sorting.;
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior

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