This online appendix accompanies the article forthcoming in the Southern Economic Journal. This appendix contains additional information on the data and methodology used in the article, as well as results from additional and supplementary estimations

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act [P.L. 111-31] gives the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco products, including placing restrictions on product composition, sale, and distribution. A complete accounting of the costs and benefits of any...

The tighter price regulation the FCC proposes could lead to large reductions in revenue earned as returns to ILECs' investment in infrastructure in rural areas. Approximate yet reasonable calculations yield an estimated $1.4B of revenue destroyed by the new price regulation, with a range from...

This report examines the great progress made in availability and adoption in the broadband market over the past few decades and shows how Californian residents and businesses have come to use broadband widely. The policy issues involved with continuing the tremendous strides already made are...

We examine recent survey data from California to investigate smokers' intended responses to an increase in cigarette excise taxes rates, including tax avoidance and the economic crimes of tax evasion and illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP). We estimate how tax avoidance, tax evasion, and...

Data from a novel online survey of 5,000 English-speaking adult cigarette smokers in California in advance of a recent increase in the state's cigarette excise tax indicate that slightly more than one-quarter of that population engaged in some legal tax-avoiding behavior in the previous month,...

Track and trace (T&T) of tobacco products concerns recording and monitoring the physical locations through which the goods travel in the distribution channel. T&T systems for tobacco are intended mainly to combat tax evasion and illicit diversion of goods. This study examines current T&T systems...

Accurate measurement of digital divides is important for policy purposes. Empirical studies on broadband subscription gaps have largely used cross-sectional data, which cannot speak to the timing of technological adoption. Yet, the dynamics of a digital divide are important and deserve study....

This online appendix contains supplementary information for the article “Tax Evasion and Illicit Cigarettes in California: Prevalence and Demand-Side Correlates” by James E. Prieger, to be published in Crime, Law & Social Change

The textbook competitive model of drug markets predicts that greater law enforcement leads to higher black market prices, but also to the unintended consequences of greater revenue and violence. These predictions are not in accord with the paradoxical outcomes evinced by recent history in some...