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008 050113s2004 mau sb 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aHarris, Jeffrey E.
245 10 $aAsymmetric social interaction in economics$h[electronic resource] :$bcigarette smoking among young people in the United States, 1992-1999 /$cJeffrey E. Harris, Beatriz Lopez-Valcarcel.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2004.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 10409
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 1/13/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"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.
650 0 $aYoung adults$xTobacco use.
700 1 $aGonzález López-Valcárcel, Beatriz
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 10409.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/W10409