Tobacco taxation is an essential component of a comprehensive tobacco control strategy.
However, to fully realize the benefits it is vital to understand the impact of increased taxes …

Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world
since the UK Royal College of Physicians' and the US Surgeon General's reports in the …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

We use a randomized experiment to test whether and what information changes teenagers'
sexual behavior in Kenya. Providing information on the relative risk of HIV infection by …

This paper examines the relationship between the minimum high school dropout age and
juvenile arrest rates by exploiting state-level variation in dropout age laws. County-level …

One of the most cogent criticisms of excise taxes is their regressivity, with lower income
groups spending a much larger share of their income on goods such as cigarettes than do …

Objective: To examine tobacco company documents to determine what the companies knew
about the impact of cigarette prices on smoking among youth, young adults, and adults, and …

This paper expands the youth cigarette demand literature by undertaking an examination of
the determinants of smoking among high school students incorporating the importance of …

Although the benefits to academic achievement and cognitive development experienced by
children participating in the Carolina Abecedarian Project have been well documented …

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 …