TY  - JOUR
AU  - Chaloupka,Frank J.
TI  - Men, Women, and Addiction: The Case of Cigarette Smoking
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3267
PY  - 1990
Y2  - February 1990
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3267
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3267.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Frank J. Chaloupka, IV
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Economics (m/c 144)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
601 S. Morgan Street, Room 713
Chicago, IL  60607-7121
Tel: 312/413-2287
Fax: 312/996-3344;630/801-8870
E-Mail: fjc@uic.edu
AB  - Cigarette demand equations, derived from the Becker-Murphy model of rational addictive behavior, are estimated separately for men and women. These demand equations account for the reinforcement, tolerance, and withdrawal factors characterizing addictive consumption. Results obtained from these demand equations support the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is an addictive behavior. Particularly interesting are the findings that men are responsive to changes in the price of cigarettes, with a long run price elasticity centered on -0.60, while women are virtually unresponsive to price changes. Men, however, are found to behave more myopically than women.
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