Individual cigarette consumption and addiction: a flexible limited dependent variable approach

Health Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-117

  Yen, Steven T ^a   Jones, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Box cox transformation; Double hurdle; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030102844     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199603)5:2<105::AID-HEC188>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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