| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22718 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22718 |
| Behavioral Welfare Economics and FDA Tobacco Regulations | |
| Philip DeCicca; Donald S. Kenkel; Feng Liu; Hua Wang | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-10-10 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The U.S. 2009 Tobacco Control Act opened the door for new anti-smoking policies by giving the Food and Drug Administration broad regulatory authority over the tobacco industry. We develop a behavioral welfare economics approach to conduct cost-benefit analysis of FDA tobacco regulations. We use a simple two-period model to develop expressions for the impact of tobacco control policies on social welfare. Our model includes: nudge and paternalistic regulations; an excise tax on cigarettes; internalities created by period 1 versus period 2 consumption; and externalities from cigarette consumption. Our analytical expressions show that in the presence of uncorrected externalities and internalities, a tax or a nudge to reduce cigarette consumption improves social welfare. In sharp contrast, a paternalistic regulation might either improve or worsen social welfare. Another important result is that the social welfare gains from new policies do not only depend on the size of the internalities and externalities, but also depend on the extent to which current policies already correct the problems. We link our analytical expressions to the graphical approach used in most previous studies and discuss the information needed to complete cost-benefit analysis of tobacco regulations. Finally, we use our model as a framework to re-examine the evidence base regarding the size of the relevant internalities. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22718 |
| 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/580391 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Philip DeCicca,Donald S. Kenkel,Feng Liu,et al. Behavioral Welfare Economics and FDA Tobacco Regulations. 2016. |
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