Catching the habit: A study of inequality of opportunity in smoking-related mortality

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 175-194

  Balia, Silvia ^a   Jones, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duration analysis; Inequality of opportunity; Latent factors; Mortality; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650868237     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00654.x     Document Type: Article

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