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We analyzed cigarette smoking among people aged 15 - 24 in approximately 90,000 households in the 1992 - 1999 U ….S. Current Population Surveys. We modeled social influence as an informational externality, in which each young person's smoking … informs her peers about its coolness.' The resulting family smoking game,' with each sibling's smoking endogenous, may have …
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) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four …Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008 … cigarette taxes since 2005. In fact, we find little evidence of a negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth …
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Recent studies analyzing the effects of religion on various economic, social, health and political outcomes have been largely associational. Although some attempts have been made to establish causation using instrument variable (IV) or difference-in-difference (DID) methods, the instruments and...
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is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to design …, among teenagers who smoke frequently, 46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight. This …
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This paper estimates the effects of friends' health behaviors, smoking and drinking, on own health behaviors for …
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tobacco products among youth using the Monitoring the Future survey, a nationally representative survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th … percentage of students who reported smoking in the past 30 days dropped between 9.7% and 13.3% immediately following the tax … United States in May 2009 had the federal tax not increased in April 2009. The long-term projected number of youth prevented …
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Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use … also initiates intercourse, holding constant family and individual factors. Similar effects are also present for smoking …
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This paper estimates the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking in lower-income countries using data from the … Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS). Country-level heterogeneity is addressed with fixed effects and by directly controlling … for confounding environmental factors such as local anti-smoking sentiment, cigarette advertising, anti-smoking media …
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(Add Health) to examine the impact of tobacco taxes on smoking. To account for unobserved heterogeneity in response to …
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dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking initiation and cessation. We develop a simple model to highlight the … distinctions between smoking initiation, cessation, and participation and show that the price elasticity of smoking participation … also contribute new estimates on the tax-responsiveness of young adult smoking, paying careful attention to the possibility …
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