ECON 345 Chapter Notes -National Health Interview Survey, The American Economic Review, Afro-Latin Americans
31 Oct 2014
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Smoking is a cross-sectional data set with observations on 10,000 indoor workers, which is a subset of a 18,090-observation data set collected as part of the national health. Interview survey in 1991 and then again (with different respondents) in 1993. The data set contains information on whether individuals were, or were not, subject to a workplace smoking ban, whether or not the individuals smoked and other individual characteristics. These data were provided by professor william evans of the university of maryland and were used in his paper with matthew farrelly and edward montgomery: do workplace. Smoking bans reduce smoking? american economic review, september 1999, vol. =1 if there is a work area smoking ban, =0 otherwise age in years. =1 if female, =0 otherwise smoker smkban age hsdrop hsgrad colsome colgrad black hispanic female. Note: the educational binary indicators refer to the highest level attained and thus are mutually exclusive.
