determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates … youth; indeed, increasingly over time youth smoking is taking place among white, suburban youth with college educated … 25 and 50% of the rise in youth smoking in the 1990s will persist into adulthood for this cohort; rough calculations …

This paper contains the first estimates of the price sensitivity of the prevalence of youth marijuana use. Survey data … significantly to the trends in youth marijuana use between 1982 and 1998, particularly during the contraction in use from 1982 to … 1992. Similarly, changes in youth perceptions of the harms associated with regular marijuana use had a substantial impact …

After steadily declining over the previous 15 years, youth smoking began to rise precipitously in 1992, and by 1997 had … policies on youth smoking in the 1990s, drawing on three separate data sets. I find that the most important policy determinant … of youth smoking, particularly among older teens, is prices. Prices are a significant and sizeable determinant of smoking …

unobserved characteristics. Data come from the National School-Based Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, which are nationally …

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System), this study explores the impact of ENDS taxes on youth … tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 …

equals -1.4. It follows that, if future reductions in youth smoking are desired, an increase in the Federal excise tax is a …

The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents … experts often claim that because tobacco is a "gateway" drug, higher cigarette taxes will deter youth marijuana use. Using … data from the National and State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) for the period 1991-2017, we explore the relationship …