Cigarette taxes and youth smoking: New evidence from national, state, and local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys
Cigarette taxes and youth smoking: New evidence from national, state, and local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2007.05.008
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Cook, Philip J.
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作者：
Carpenter, Christopher;Cook, Philip J.
几项研究调查了 20 世纪 90 年代增加国家卷烟税对青少年物质使用的影响，大多数（但不是全部）研究发现，更高的税收会减少青少年的烟草消费。我们利用 1991 年至 2005 年全国青少年风险行为调查 (YRBS) 的数据来推进文献研究，提供超过 100,000 名高中适龄青少年的信息。我们也是第一个使用数百个独立部署的州和地方版本的 YRBS 的公司，反映了超过 750,000 名年轻人的数据。重要的是，据我们所知，这些数据是青少年吸烟相关信息的唯一来源，这些信息被明确设计为代表抽样州或地区。我们估计了州卷烟税对青少年吸烟影响的双向固定效应模型，控制了调查人口统计数据以及地区和年份固定效应。我们最一致的发现是，与最近的一些研究相反，过去 15 年各州烟草税的大幅增加与青少年吸烟参与度和频繁吸烟率的显着减少有关。我们对高中青少年吸烟参与度的价格弹性估计通常小于以前的横截面方法，但与最近的准实验估计相似。 (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
Several studies have examined the effects of state cigarette tax increases on youth substance use over the 1990s, with most but not all - finding that higher taxes reduce youth consumption of tobacco. We advance the literature by using data from the 1991 to 2005 waves of the national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS), providing information on over 100,000 high school age youths. We also are the first to make use of hundreds of independently fielded state and local versions of the YRBS, reflecting data from over 750,000 youths. Importantly, these data are to our knowledge the only sources of relevant information on youth smoking that were explicitly designed to be representative of the sampled state or locality. We estimate two-way fixed effects models of the effect of state cigarette taxes on youth smoking, controlling for survey demographics and area and year fixed effects. Our most consistent finding is that - contrary to some recent research - the large state tobacco tax increases of the past 15 years were associated with significant reductions in smoking participation and frequent smoking by youths. Our price elasticity estimates for smoking participation by high school youths are generally smaller than previous cross-sectional approaches but are similar to recent quasi-experimental estimates. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.