dc.contributor.author |
Busch, Susan H |
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dc.contributor.author |
Jofre-Bonet, Mireia |
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dc.contributor.author |
Falba, Tracy A |
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dc.contributor.author |
Sindelar, Jody L |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
New Zealand |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2010-12-08T20:38:00Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2004 |
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dc.identifier |
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15901200 |
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dc.identifier |
349 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10161/2862 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Smoking is an expensive habit. Smoking households spend, on average, more than $US1000
annually on cigarettes. When a family member quits, in addition to the former smoker's
improved long-term health, families benefit because savings from reduced cigarette
expenditures can be allocated to other goods. For households in which some members
continue to smoke, smoking expenditures crowd-out other purchases, which may affect
other household members, as well as the smoker. We empirically analyse how expenditures
on tobacco crowd-out consumption of other goods, estimating the patterns of substitution
and complementarity between tobacco products and other categories of household expenditure.
We use the Consumer Expenditure Survey data for the years 1995-2001, which we complement
with regional price data and state cigarette prices. We estimate a consumer demand
system that includes several main expenditure categories (cigarettes, food, alcohol,
housing, apparel, transportation, medical care) and controls for socioeconomic variables
and other sources of observable heterogeneity. Descriptive data indicate that, comparing
smokers to nonsmokers, smokers spend less on housing. Results from the demand system
indicate that as the price of cigarettes rises, households increase the quantity of
food purchased, and, in some samples, reduce the quantity of apparel and housing purchased.
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dc.description.sponsorship |
This research was supported by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (#039787). |
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dc.language |
eng |
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dc.language.iso |
en_US |
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dc.publisher |
Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Appl Health Econ Health Policy |
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dc.subject |
Adult |
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dc.subject |
Budgets |
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dc.subject |
Costs and Cost Analysis |
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dc.subject |
Data Collection |
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dc.subject |
Family Characteristics |
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dc.subject |
Female |
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dc.subject |
Humans |
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dc.subject |
Male |
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dc.subject |
Models, Economic |
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dc.subject |
Smoking |
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dc.subject |
United States |
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dc.title |
Burning a hole in the budget: tobacco spending and its crowd-out of other goods. |
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dc.type |
Journal article |
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duke.contributor.id |
Falba, Tracy A|0407939 |
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pubs.author-url |
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15901200 |
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pubs.begin-page |
263 |
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pubs.end-page |
272 |
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pubs.issue |
4 |
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pubs.organisational-group |
Duke |
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pubs.organisational-group |
Economics |
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pubs.organisational-group |
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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pubs.volume |
3 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1179-1896 |
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