SmokeBan {AER} | R Documentation |
Estimation of the effect of workplace smoking bans on smoking of indoor workers.
data("SmokeBan")
A data frame containing 10,000 observations on 7 variables.
SmokeBank
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.
Online complements to Stock and Watson (2007).
http://wps.aw.com/aw_stock_ie_2/0,12040,3332253-,00.html
Evans, W. N., Farrelly, M.C., and Montgomery, E. (1999). Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking? American Economic Review, 89, 728–747.
Stock, J.H. and Watson, M.W. (2007). Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison Wesley.
data("SmokeBan") ## proportion of non-smokers increases with education plot(smoker ~ education, data = SmokeBan) ## proportion of non-smokers constant over age plot(smoker ~ age, data = SmokeBan)