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Sample of males in 1979 and early 1980 from the smoking supplement.

Usage

smoke

Format

A data frame with 807 observations and 10 variables.

educ

Years of education

cigpric

State's cigarette price (cents per pack)

white

Binary: white

age

Age in years

income

Annual income in dollars

cigs

Number of cigarettes smoked per day

restaurn

Binary: restaurant restrictions on smoking

lincome

log(income)

agesq

age^2

lcigpric

log(cigprice)

References

Wooldridge, J. M. (2020). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. 7th Edition. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

Mullahy, J. (1997). "Instrumental-Variable Estimation of Count Data Models: Applications to Models of Cigarette Smoking and Infant Health." Review of Economics and Statistics 79, 586-593.