Journal article
The effect of cigarette taxes on smoking among men and women
Health economics, v 16(12), pp 1333-1343
Dec 2007
PMID: 17335102
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Abstract
The literature contains numerous studies that estimate the effect of cigarette taxes on smoking across various population groups. Although the conclusions are split, most US studies find that men are more responsive to cigarette taxes than women. This paper shows that these results are due to the failure to control for state-specific gender gaps in smoking rates that are correlated with cigarette taxes. When gender-specific state fixed effects are included to control for these gaps, the results indicate that women are nearly twice as responsive to cigarette taxes as are men. Since the econometric specification controls for variation in the tax response by household income, it is unlikely to be responsible for the difference.
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- Title
- The effect of cigarette taxes on smoking among men and women
- Creators
- Mark Stehr - Department of Economics, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875, USA. stehr@drexel.edu
- Publication Details
- Health economics, v 16(12), pp 1333-1343
- Publisher
- Wiley; England
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics); Center for Public Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000251892500005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-38049028597
- Other Identifier
- 991014878632804721
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