| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15130 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15130 |
| Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence | |
| Jason M. Fletcher; Partha Deb; Jody L. Sindelar | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-07-09 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Recent literature has suggested that higher taxes on addictive goods could increase welfare by assisting individuals with self control problems and trouble resisting 'temptation'. In contrast, if individuals continue to use despite increased prices, taxation may serve to reduce the welfare of these individuals while providing no benefits in managing self control nor mitigating externalities. We use data on adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the impact of tobacco taxes on smoking. To account for unobserved heterogeneity in response to taxes we estimate finite mixture models, positing two types of individuals with differential responses to taxes. We find evidence of differential price elasticity for tobacco use across the adolescents groups, and show that individuals with low self control or high discount rates are largely unresponsive to cigarette price. Those who have the least willpower may need the most help in quitting but are unresponsive to taxes, suggesting that policies other than taxation may be needed to reduce adolescent tobacco use. |
| 主题 | Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15130 |
| 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/572805 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jason M. Fletcher,Partha Deb,Jody L. Sindelar. Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence. 2009. |
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| w15130.pdf（177KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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