Putting Out the Fires: Will Higher Taxes Reduce the Onset of Youth Smoking?

By Philip Decicca, D. Kenkel, A. Mathios. Journal of Political Economy, 2002

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Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter (2010, unknown): “10For example, Chaloupka and Grossman (1996), Chaloupka and Pacula (1998), Gruber and Zinman (2000) and DeCicca et al. (2002) have not reached unanimous conclusions regarding the impact of youth access restrictions and clean air regulations on youth smoking.”
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors (2010, background): “However, skeptics claim that youth are more influenced by peers than by prices (DeCicca et al. 2002) and note that SES disparities have failed to decline as expected in the United States with increasing prices (Pampel 2009).”
Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics (2020, background): “33 DeCicca, Kenkel, and Mathios (2002) and DeCicca et al. (2008) show that estimates of the elasticity of demand for smoking will be overestimated if legislators are less the restrictions against soft theory and soft evidence, this story would be a star of the show.”
Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide (2014, unknown): “Following Grogger and Bronars ( 2001 ) and DeCicca, Kenkel, and Mathios ( 2002 ) , we estimated a version of our baseline specification—column 4 of Table 2—in which the dependent variable equals 1 when a loan becomes 60 days delinquent ( without conditioning on being previously current .”