| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14042 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14042 |
| Cigarette Taxes and the Transition from Youth to Adult Smoking: Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Participation | |
| Philip DeCicca; Donald S. Kenkel; Alan D. Mathios | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-05-30 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Policy makers continue to advocate and adopt cigarette taxes as a public health measure. Most previous individual-level empirical studies of cigarette demand are essentially static analyses. In this study, we use longitudinal data to examine the dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking initiation and cessation. We develop a simple model to highlight the distinctions between smoking initiation, cessation, and participation and show that the price elasticity of smoking participation is a weighted average of corresponding initiation and cessation elasticities, a finding that applies more broadly to other addictive substances as well. The paper's remaining contributions are empirical. We use data from the 1992 wave of the National Education Longitudinal Study, when most of the cohort were high school seniors, and data from the 2000 wave, when they were about 26 years old. The results show that the distinction between initiation and cessation is empirically useful. We also contribute new estimates on the tax-responsiveness of young adult smoking, paying careful attention to the possibility of bias if hard-to-observe differences in anti-smoking sentiment are correlated with state cigarette taxes. We find no evidence that higher taxes prevent smoking initiation, but some evidence that higher taxes are associated with increased cessation. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14042 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571716 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Philip DeCicca,Donald S. Kenkel,Alan D. Mathios. Cigarette Taxes and the Transition from Youth to Adult Smoking: Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Participation. 2008. |
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