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Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data

Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four additional waves of YRBS data (2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013). Our results suggest that youths have become much less responsive to cigarette taxes since 2005. In fact, we find little evidence of a negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking when we restrict our attention to the period 2007-2013.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9144

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
Thema
cigarette tax
tobacco control
youth smoking

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hansen, Benjamin
Sabia, Joseph J.
Rees, Daniel I.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hansen, Benjamin
  • Sabia, Joseph J.
  • Rees, Daniel I.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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