Long-Term Effects of Tobacco Prices Faced by Adolescents

Q3 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Forum for Health Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2015-01-01 DOI:10.1515/fhep-2014-0005

M. Auld, M. Zarrabi

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract Tobacco taxes in Canada varied markedly across time and across regions in the early 1990s. We exploit this variation to estimate the long reach of prices faced in adolescence on smoking behavior roughly a decade later in early to mid-adulthood. Results from a variety of econometric approaches suggest that there is a small but detectable long-run effect of price faced during adolescence. A 10% increase in prices faced during adolescence, holding contemporaneous prices constant, leads to roughly a 1% reduction in adult smoking propensity and intensity. The results are somewhat sensitive to specification and to how price during adolescence is measured.

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青少年面临的烟草价格的长期影响

20世纪90年代初，加拿大的烟草税在不同的时间和地区之间存在显著差异。我们利用这种变化来估计大约十年后，即成年早期到中期，青少年所面临的价格对吸烟行为的长期影响。各种计量经济学方法的结果表明，青少年时期面临的价格有一个小但可检测的长期影响。在保持同期价格不变的情况下，青少年时期面临的价格增加10%，会导致成人吸烟倾向和强度减少大约1%。结果对规格和如何衡量青少年时期的价格有些敏感。

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Forum for Health Economics and Policy Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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