Replication data for: Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jérôme Adda; Francesca Cornaglia

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Project Citation: 

Adda, Jérôme, and Cornaglia, Francesca. Replication data for: Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116227V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration—a metabolite of nicotine—measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate for tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important contributions. First, as smoking a given cigarette more intensively is detrimental to health, our results question the usefulness of tax increases. Second, we develop a model of rational addiction where agents can also adjust their intensity of smoking, and we show that the previous empirical results suffer from estimation biases. (JEL D12, H25, I12)

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JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      H25 Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
      I12 Health Behavior


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