Entry:

Sander, William, "Schooling and Smoking," Economics of Education Review, 14 (1995), 23-33.


Abstract:

People with more education are less likely to smoke than people with less education are.

GSS Years:

1986-1991

Other Data Sets:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1966-1987

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
PAEDUC

"HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED

MAEDUC

"HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED

SIBS

NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS

AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

RES16

TYPE OF PLACE LIVED IN WHEN 16 YRS OLD

REG16

"REGION OF RESIDENCE

EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

SEX

RESPONDENTS SEX

RACE

RACE OF RESPONDENT

INCOME

TOTAL FAMILY INCOME

REGION

REGION OF INTERVIEW

XNORCSIZ

EXPANDED N.O.R.C. SIZE CODE

SMOKE

DOES R SMOKE

EVSMOKE

HAS R EVER SMOKED