Intergenerational educational mobility and smoking: a study of 20 European countries using diagonal reference models

Intergenerational educational mobility can be particularly relevant for smoking because it implies moving from individuals' family background to a new position in the social hierarchy. Existing research, however, does not provide an answer as to how the process of mobility, per se, is associated with the likelihood of smoking. We used cross-nationally comparable survey data for 20 countries collected within the health module of the European...