While the tobacco industry is among the most substantial and successful economic enterprises, tobacco consumption kills … more people than any other product. Economic analysis of tobacco product markets, particularly for cigarettes, has … health consequences of tobacco. The most significant example is the rapidly expanding and increasingly sophisticated body of …

Tobacco researchers have focused considerable attention on the evaluation of various mechanisms to control cigarette … presents estimates of the effects of tobacco excise taxes and laws restricting public smoking on the likelihood of current use … of different forms of tobacco (moist snuff and cigarettes) obtained from tobacco use data in the Current Population …

-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A … temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers stimulates Green Revolution technology adoption and leads to increased maize … yields. Effects of the subsidy persist in later unsubsidized years. In addition, social networks of subsidized farmers …

Using commodity futures contract and spot prices, we estimate the incidence of the US ethanol subsidy accruing to corn … ethanol producers captured two-thirds of the subsidy, and suggestive evidence that a small portion of this benefit accrued to … or gasoline consumers captured any part of the subsidy. This paper contributes to understanding of biofuels markets and …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … subsidy to expenditures on non-food items. Estimates of the price effect of food price subsidy on the three measures of …

Recent litigation against major tobacco companies culminated in a Master Settlement Agreement' (MSA) under which the …

Tobacco 21 (T-21) laws prohibit the sale of tobacco products to individuals under age 21. This study is the first to … comprehensively examine the impacts of statewide T-21 laws on youth tobacco consumption, including spillovers to minor teens. Using …), we find that statewide T-21 laws reduced tobacco cigarette and electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) consumption among 18 …

, as well as the smoker. We empirically analyze how expenditures on tobacco crowd out consumption of other goods …, estimating the patterns of substitution between tobacco products and other expenditures. We use the Consumer Expenditure Survey …