TY  - JOUR
AU  - Chaloupka,Frank J.
AU  - Pacula,Rosalie Liccardo
TI  - An Examination of Gender and Race Differences in Youth Smoking Responsiveness to Price and Tobacco Control Policies
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6541
PY  - 1998
Y2  - April 1998
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6541
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6541.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

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
Tel: 310/393-0411 ext. 6494
Fax: 858/350-8798
E-Mail: pacula@rand.org
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1998-09-01
AB  - Nationally representative studies consistently report significant gender and racial differences in youth smoking rates, although little research has been done to explain why.  In this paper we examine one possible source for this variation: differences in youth responsiveness to changes in price or tobacco control policies.  Using data from the 1992-1994 Monitoring the Future surveys, we find that young men are much more responsive to changes in the price of cigarettes than young women.  The participation elasticity for men is almost twice as large as that for women.  Further, we find that smoking rates of young black men are significantly more responsive to changes in price than young white men.  In addition, we find significant differences in responsiveness to particular tobacco control policies.  Smoking rates among white youths are responsive to anti-tobacco activities and clean indoor air restrictions, while smoking rates among black youths are significantly influenced by smoker protection laws and restrictions on youth access.
ER  -