Ciccarelli, Carlo; Fraja, Gianni De - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 2, pp. 145-171
This paper studies the demand for tobacco products in post-unification Italy. We construct a very detailed panel data set of yearly consumption in the 69 Italian provinces from 1871 to 1913 and use it to estimate the demand for tobacco products. We find support for the Becker and Murphy (J Polit...