NBER Publications by Susan Busch
Working Papers and Chapters
| December 2004 | Tobacco Spending and its Crowd-Out of Other Goods
with Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Tracy A. Falba, Jody L. Sindelar: w10974
Smoking is an expensive habit. Smoking households spend, on average, more than $1000 annually on cigarettes. For households in which some members smoke, smoking expenditures crowd-out other purchases, which may affect other household members, as well as the smoker. We empirically analyze how expenditures on tobacco crowd out consumption of other goods, estimating the patterns of substitution between tobacco products and other expenditures. We use the Consumer Expenditure Survey (1995 to 2001), which we complement with regional price data, and state cigarette prices. We estimate a consumer demand system of expenditures on cigarettes, food, alcohol, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care and controls for socio-economic variables and other sources of observable heterogeneity. Descript... |
| January 2001 | Creating Price Indexes for Measuring Productivity in Mental Health Care
with Ernst R. Berndt, Richard G. Frank
in Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 4, Alan M. Garber, editor
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| Treatment Price Indexes for Acute Phase Major Depression
with Ernst R. Berndt, Richard Frank
in Medical Care Output and Productivity, David M. Cutler and Ernst R. Berndt, editors
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