Book/Printed Material Asymmetric social interaction in economics cigarette smoking among young people in the United States, 1992-1999

Title

• Asymmetric social interaction in economics cigarette smoking among young people in the United States, 1992-1999

Summary

• "We analyzed cigarette smoking among people aged 15 - 24 in approximately 90,000 households in the 1992 - 1999 U.S. Current Population Surveys. We modeled social influence as an informational externality, in which each young person's smoking informs her peers about its coolness.' The resulting family smoking game,' with each sibling's smoking endogenous, may have multiple equilibria. We found that the pro-smoking influence of a fellow smoker markedly exceeded the deterrent effect of a non-smoking peer. The phenomenon of asymmetric social influence has implications for financial markets, educational performance, criminal behavior, and other areas of inquiry where peer influence is important"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

• Harris, Jeffrey E.
• González López-Valcárcel, Beatriz
• National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

• Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2004.

Headings

• -  Young adults--Tobacco use

Notes

• -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/13/2005.
• -  Includes bibliographical references.
• -  Also available in print.
• -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Call Number/Physical Location

• HB1

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2005615705
• http://papers.nber.org/papers/W10409 External

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2005615705

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2005615705

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