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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w20097 |
来源ID | Working Paper 20097 |
Is Smoking Inferior? Evidence from Variation in the Earned Income Tax Credit | |
Donald S. Kenkel; Maximilian D. Schmeiser; Carly J. Urban | |
发表日期 | 2014-05-01 |
出版年 | 2014 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In this paper we estimate the causal income elasticity of smoking participation, cessation, and cigarette demand conditional upon participation. Using an instrumental variables (IV) estimation strategy we find that smoking appears to be a normal good among low-income adults: higher instrumented income is associated with an increase in the number of cigarettes consumed and a decrease in smoking cessation. The magnitude and direction of the changes in the income coefficients from our OLS to IV estimates are consistent with the hypothesis that correlational estimates between income and smoking related outcomes are biased by unobservable characteristics that differentiate higher income smokers from lower income smokers. |
主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20097 |
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/577770 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Donald S. Kenkel,Maximilian D. Schmeiser,Carly J. Urban. Is Smoking Inferior? Evidence from Variation in the Earned Income Tax Credit. 2014. |
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