the upper and the lower limit. The purpose of this article is to challenge several myths related to the cigarette taxation … in the EU. The first one is that an increase of the specific component of the cigarette excise negatively affects the … the paper is that an increase of the specific excise increases the government revenue from cigarette excises, whereby this …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to …

/2005 Italian Health Surveys and adopting a difference-in-difference approach that nets out monthly variation in smoking rates, we …This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a set of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by the … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 …

population density and the extent of tests conducted to fine tune the index. The association between per capita health … expenditure and relative performance indices reveals that there are states where relatively sound health infrastructure has not … ensured better performance in curing patients and those relatively weak have done better. But with a multi-dimensional health …