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Youth Smoking, Cigarette Prices, and Anti-Smoking Sentiment / Philip DeCicca, Donald S. Kenkel, Alan D. Mathios, Yoon-Jeong Shin, Jae-Young Lim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeCicca, Philip.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12458.
- NBER working paper series no. w12458
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti-smoking sentiment and merge it with micro data on youth smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross-sectional models show two consistent patterns: after controlling for differences in state anti-smoking sentiment, the price of cigarettes has a weak and statistically insignificant influence on smoking participation; and state anti-smoking sentiment appears to be a potentially important influence on youth smoking participation. The cross-sectional results are corroborated by results from discrete time hazard models of smoking initiation that include state fixed effects. However, there is evidence of price-responsiveness in the conditional cigarette demand by youth and young adult smokers.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2006.
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