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Cawley, John Markowitz, Sara Tauras, John |
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Body Weight, Cigarette Prices, Youth Access Laws and Adolescent Smoking Initiation Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Allied Social Science Association Meeting, January 2005. Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2005/0107_0800_0101.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Society of Government Economists (SGE) Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Smoking (see Cigarette Use); State-Level Data/Policy; Variables, Instrumental; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the role of body weight in smoking initiation by aolescents. We estimate discrete-time hazard models of the decision to initiate smoking using data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort. We control for cigarette prices, tobacco control policies and socioeconomic factors. To avoid problems stemming from the endogeneity of body weight, we also estimate models using the method of instrumental variables. We find clear gender differences. Lighter girls are less likely to initiate smoking, while current weight is uncorrelated with initiation among boys. Among girls, smoking initiation is insensitive to cigarette prices, but among boys smoking initiation is negatively correlated with cigarette prices. These gender-specific differences may help explain the mixed evidence of the impact of price on smoking initiation found in previous literature. |
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Cawley, John, Sara Markowitz and John Tauras. "Body Weight, Cigarette Prices, Youth Access Laws and Adolescent Smoking Initiation." Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Allied Social Science Association Meeting, January 2005. |