Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India

G. Emmanuel Guindon, Arindam Nandi, Frank J. Chaloupka, IV, Prabhat Jha

NBER Working Paper No. 17580
Issued in November 2011

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We thank the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for providing financial support for this research. We thank Cuiping Long for her excellent research assistance, Jitender Sudhir, Prabha Sati, and Renu Joseph for support in obtaining data, PC Mohanan and the National Survey Organization (NSSO), New Delhi for guidance in using NSS data and Rijo John for helpful discussions. We are indebted to Angus Deaton for providing public access to his Stata codes. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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