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Title: | Using cigarette taxes when smokers are heterogeneous [electronic resource] |
Authors: | Grignon, Michel. Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis McMaster University |
Keywords: | Smoking;economics;Smoking;prevention & control;Smoking Cessation;methods;Smoking Cessation;psychology;Taxes;Tobacco use;Statistics;Cigarettes;Taxation |
Publication Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University |
Series/Report no.: | CHEPA working paper series ; 07-10 |
Abstract: | I use a unique dataset to estimate the relationship between time preferences, social capital, and the decision to start and quit smoking. I find impatient respondents do not differ much from patient ones, but quasi-hyperbolic respondents tend to smoke more often and have much more difficulties quitting. I also find that trust in the community protects from starting and helps quitting, but sense of control encourages starting smoking. These preliminary results strongly suggest that smokers form a heterogeneous population: I argue that such heterogeneity means that taxes on cigarettes are a blunt and inefficient instrument of public health--Author. |
Description: | Michel Grignon. Title from title screen (viewed Jan. 31, 2008). Includes bibliographical references. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
URI: | http://www.chepa.org/docs/working-papers/chepa-wp-07-10.pdf?sfvrsn=0 http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17106 |
Appears in Collections: | CHEPA Working Paper Series |
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