58489 20171130135648.0 doi 10.1007/s00181-013-0704-7 sideral 86603 ART-2014-86603 eng (orcid)0000-0003-3113-1698 Duarte, R. Universidad de Zaragoza Are estimated peer effects on smoking robust? Evidence from adolescent students in Spain 2014 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Adolescent smoking is one of the most pressing public health problems. The objective of this paper is to analyse the influence of peer pressure on adolescent cigarette consumption. More concretely, we explore the significance and robustness of the peer effects using several estimation methods employed in the existing literature. On the basis of the data provided by the 2004 Spanish survey on drug use in the school population, we estimate the probability of being a smoker by two-stage models. The results reveal that when we use standard errors used in the literature the class peer variable appears to be significant. However, the class peer variable is not significant when we calculate more exigent standard errors, a result that is robust across all specifications. The paper suggests the need for a more cautious interpretation of the peer effects found previously in the literature until a deeper analysis confirms the robustness of the peer effects. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2012-34828 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ 0.693 2014 ECONOMICS 196 / 331 = 0.592 2014 Q3 T2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS 37 / 46 = 0.804 2014 Q4 T3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion (orcid)0000-0002-2940-6587 Escario, J.J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-9437-4606 Molina, J.A. Universidad de Zaragoza 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Departamento de Análisis Económico Fundamentos del Análisis Económico 46, 3 (2014), 1167-1179 Empir. econ. Empirical Economics 0377-7332 374125 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/58489/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 56326 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/58489/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:58489 articulos driver 2017-11-30-13:53:48 ARTICLE