Testing Club Convergence in Female Smoking Prevalence

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Fabrizio Ferretti (مؤلف), Michele Mariani (مؤلف), Elena Sarti (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...