Testing Club Convergence in Female Smoking Prevalence

In this paper, we applied the concept of convergence to examine the evolution of smoking prevalence among women in 191 countries worldwide from 1990 to 2019. First, the non-linear time-varying factor model proposed by Phillips and Sul was adopted to identify potential clusters (clubs), wherein group...

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Main Authors: Fabrizio Ferretti, Michele Mariani, Elena Sarti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Global Women's Health
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2022.875813/full