Data for Economic Analysis (2009)
Ayda Yurekli, Joy De Beyer, Christina U. Ciecierski, Frank J. Chaloupka
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Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students' Drinking Intensity? (2005)
Williams, Jenny, Chaloupka, Frank J., Wechsler, Henry
This article investigates the impact of campus bans on alcohol use and the price of alcohol on college students' drinking intensity. The impact of a campus ban on drinking appears to depend on the...
New Evidence on Youth Smoking Behavior based on Experimental Price Increases (2005)
Ross, Hana, Powell, Lisa M., Tauras, John A., Chaloupka, Frank J.
The high youth smoking prevalence remains an important public policy challenge into the 21st century. This study applies a unique approach to analyzing the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking...
Youth Smoking Uptake Progress: Price and Public Policy Effects (2003)
Ross, Hana, Chaloupka, Frank J., Wakefield, Melanie
The increases in smoking prevalence among U.S. youth during the 1990's, and the growing evidence that adolescents become regular smokers at earlier ages, have attracted significant attention from...
Projected Smoking-Related Deaths Among U.S. Youth: A 2000 Update (2002)
Hahn, Ellen J, Rayens, Mary Kay, Chaloupka, Frank J., Okoli, Chizimuzo T.C., Yang, Jun
This paper projects the long term consequences of the rise in youth smoking in the1990s by updating the state estimates for projected smoking-related deaths among youthin the U.S. using information...
The Impact of Prices and Control Policies on Cigarette Smoking among College Students (2001)
Czart, Christina, Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo, Chaloupka, Frank J., Weschsler, Henry
Smoking among youths and young adults has been rising throughout the 1990's. Numerous policies have been enacted to try to reverse this trend. However, little is known about the impact that these...
The Effect of Cigarette Prices on Youth Smoking (2001)
Ross, Hana, Chaloupka, Frank J.
Prior economic research provides mixed evidence on the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking. This paper empirically tests the effects of various price measures on youth demand for cigarettes...
Differential Effects of Cigarette Price on Youth Smoking Intensity (2001)
Liang, Lan, Chaloupka, Frank J.
Objectives: Data from the 1992, 1993, and 1994 Monitoring the Future Surveys were used to investigate the differential effects of cigarette price on the intensity of youth cigarette smoking.Methods:...
Wakefield, Melanie, Ruel, Erin E., Chaloupka, Frank J., Slater, Sandy J., Kaufman, Nancy J.
Objectives - To determine the relationship between brand-specific advertising and promotions in convenience stores for Marlboro and Camel cigarettes and choice of usual brand among school...
The Impact of Tobacco Control Program Expenditures (2001)
Matthew C. Farrelly, Terry F. Pechacek, Frank J. Chaloupka, Matthew C. Farrelly, Terry F. Pechacek, Frank J. Chaloupka, ...
The authors would like to thank Andrew Sfekas and Kristin Thomas for excellent programming support, Susan Murchie for editorial assistance, Gary Zarkin for providing helpful suggestions on earlier...
Changes at the Point-of-Sale for Tobacco Following the 1999 Billboard Ban (2000)
Wakefield, Melanie A., Terry, Yvonne M., Chaloupka, Frank J., Barker, Dianne C., Slater, Sandy J., Clark, Pamela I, ...
Objective--This study aimed to assess the effect of the Master Settlement Agreement's (MSA) 24 April 1999 ban on billboard tobacco advertising on the tobacco industry's point-of-purchase marketing...
Do Restrictions on Smoking at Home, at School and in Public Places Influence Teenage Smoking? (2000)
Wakefield, Melanie A., Chaloupka, Frank J., Kaufman, Nancy J., Orleans, C. Tracy, Barker, Dianne C., Ruel, Erin E.
Objectives - To determine the relationship between extent of restrictions on smoking at home, at school and in public places, and smoking uptake, smoking prevalence and monthly cigarette consumption...
Effectiveness of Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs in Reducing Teenage Smoking: A Review (1999)
Wakefield, Melanie A, Chaloupka, Frank J.
This review focuses on the extent to which comprehensive, statewide, tobacco control programs in the United States have induced change in teenage smoking or made progress towards this goal and under...
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ALCOHOL ADDICTION: RESULTS FROM THE MONITORING THE FUTURE PANELS (1998)
GROSSMAN, MICHAEL, CHALOUPKA, FRANK J., SIRTALAN, ISMAIL
In a panel of young adults, we find that alcohol consumption is addictive in the sense that increases in past or future consumption cause current consumption to rise. The positive and significant...
EFFECT OF SURVEY CONDITIONS ON SELF-REPORTED SUBSTANCE USE (1994)
HOYT, GAIL MITCHELL, CHALOUPKA, FRANK J.
This paper examines the impact of survey conditions on the self-reported use of marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol in the 1984 and 1988 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The...
YOUTH ALCOHOL USE AND PUBLIC POLICY (1993)
LAIXUTHAI, ADIT, CHALOUPKA, FRANK J.
This paper examines the frequencies of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989 and separately examines the effects of minimum legal drinking ages and beer excise taxes for each year. In...
CLEAN INDOOR AIR LAWS AND THE DEMAND FOR CIGARETTES (1992)
CHALOUPKA, FRANK J., SAFFER, HENRY
This paper empirically tests the effect of clean indoor air laws on smoking. Public place clean indoor air laws restrict cigarette smoking in public places such as restaurants. Private place clean...
An economic analysis of addictive behavior : the case of cigarette smoking / (1988)
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Economics ... "
Do Youths Substitute Alcohol and Marijuana? Some Econometric Evidence
Frank J. Chaloupka, Adit Laixuthai
This paper examines the substitutability of alcoholic beverages and marijuana among youths. Results indicate that drinking frequency and heavy drinking are negatively related to beer prices, but...
Wakefield, Melanie A, Chaloupka, Frank J, Kaufman, Nancy J, Orleans, C Tracy, Barker, Dianne C, Ruel, Erin E
Story on smoking and poor people is incomplete
Jha, Prabhat, Musgrove, Philip, Chaloupka, Frank J, Yach, Derek
Tobacco Industry Marketing at Point of Purchase After the 1998 MSA Billboard Advertising Ban
Wakefield, Melanie A., Terry-McElrath, Yvonne M., Chaloupka, Frank J., Barker, Dianne C., Slater, Sandy J., Clark, Pamela I., ...
Youth Smoking Uptake Progress: Price and Public Policy Effects
Hana Ross, Frank J. Chaloupka, Melanie Wakefield
The differential effects of cigarette prices, smoking restrictions, and youth access laws on five stages of smoking uptake among U.S. high school students is examined. The results of the generalized...
Chaloupka, Frank J., Warner, Kenneth E., A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
While the tobacco industry ranks among the most substantial and successful of economic enterprises, tobacco consumption is associated with more deaths than any other product. Economic analysis of the...
Wakefield, Melanie A, Chaloupka, Frank J, Kaufman, Nancy J, Orleans, C Tracy, Barker, Dianne C, Ruel, Erin E
Story on smoking and poor people is incomplete
Jha, Prabhat, Musgrove, Philip, Chaloupka, Frank J, Yach, Derek
Tobacco Industry Marketing at Point of Purchase After the 1998 MSA Billboard Advertising Ban
Wakefield, Melanie A., Terry-McElrath, Yvonne M., Chaloupka, Frank J., Barker, Dianne C., Slater, Sandy J., Clark, Pamela I., ...
State Tobacco Control Spending and Youth Smoking
Tauras, John A., Chaloupka, Frank J., Farrelly, Matthew C., Giovino, Gary A., Wakefield, Melanie, Johnston, Lloyd D., ...
Objective. We examined the relationship between state-level tobacco control expenditures and youth smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption.
Men, Women, and Addiction: The Case of Cigarette Smoking
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,...
Rational Addictive Behavior and Cigarette Smoking
After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker- Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior, demand equations are derived accounting for the tolerance, reinforcement, and...
The effect of cigarette prices on youth smoking
Prior economic research provides mixed evidence on the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking. This paper empirically tests the effects of various price measures on youth demand for cigarettes...
Alcohol and marijuana use among college students: economic complements or substitutes?
J. Williams, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler
Previous research has shown that the recent tightening of college alcohol policies has been effective at reducing college students' drinking. Over the period in which these stricter alcohol policies...
Do Youths Substitute Alcohol and Marijuana? Some Econometric Evidence
Frank J. Chaloupka, Adit Laixuthai
This paper examines the substitutability of alcoholic beverages and marijuana among youths. Results indicate that drinking frequency and heavy drinking are negatively related to beer prices, but...
Youth Smoking Uptake Progress: Price and Public Policy Effects
Hana Ross, Frank J. Chaloupka, Melanie Wakefield
The differential effects of cigarette prices, smoking restrictions, and youth access laws on five stages of smoking uptake among U.S. high school students is examined. The results of the generalized...
The impact of tobacco control program expenditures on aggregate cigarette sales: 1981-2000
Farrelly, Matthew C., Pechacek, Terry F., Chaloupka, Frank J.
An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction: Results from the Monitoring the Future Panels.
Grossman, Michael, Chaloupka, Frank J, Sirtalan, Ismail
In a panel of young adults, the authors find that alcohol consumption is addictive in the sense that increases in past or future consumption cause current consumption to rise. The positive and...
New Evidence on Youth Smoking Behavior based on Experimental Price Increases
Hana Ross, Lisa M. Powell, John A. Tauras, Frank J. Chaloupka
The high youth smoking prevalence remains an important public policy challenge into the 21st century. This study applies a unique approach to analyzing the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking...
Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students' Drinking Intensity?
Jenny Williams, Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler
This article investigates the impact of campus bans on alcohol use and the price of alcohol on college students' drinking intensity. The impact of a campus ban on drinking appears to depend on the...
Youth Alcohol Use and Public Policy.
Laixuthai, Adit, Chaloupka, Frank J
This paper examines the frequencies of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989 and separately examines the effects of minimum legal drinking ages and beer excise taxes for each year. In...
Effect of Survey Conditions on Self-reported Substance Use.
Hoyt, Gail Mitchell, Chaloupka, Frank J
This paper examines the impact of survey conditions on the self-reported use of marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol in the 1984 and 1988 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The...
Global Efforts for Reducing the Burden of Smoking
Frank J. Chaloupka, Prabhat Jha, Marlo A. Corrao, Hana Ross, Christina C. Ciecierski, ...
Cigarette smoking and other tobacco use impose a huge and growing public health burden globally. Currently, approximately 4 million persons are killed annually by tobacco use; by 2030, estimates...
Powell, Lisa M., Slater, Sandy, Chaloupka, Frank J., Harper, Deborah
Objectives. We examined associations between neighborhood demographic characteristics and the availability of commercial physical activity–related outlets by zip code across the United States.
The Demand For Cigarettes and Restrictions on Smoking in the Workplace
Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Saffer
The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the effect that restrictive clean air laws have on the level of smoking. Restrictive clean air laws refers to the laws which prohibit smoking in...
Youth Alcohol Use and Public Policy
Adit Laixuthai, Frank J. Chaloupka
This paper examines the frequency of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989. The effects of minimum legal drinking ages and beer excise taxes are considered separately for each year. In...
Alcohol Control Policies and Motor Vehicle Fatalities
Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Saffer, Michael Grossman
The purpose of this study is to estimate the effects of drunk driving deterrents and other alcohol related policies on drunk driving. The data set employed is an annual time-series of state...
Do Youths Substitute Alcohol and Marijuana? Some Econometric Evidence
Frank J. Chaloupka, Adit Laixuthai
Data from the 1982 and 1989 Monitoring the Future Surveys are used to examine the substitutability of alcoholic beverages and marijuana among youths. Beer prices and minimum legal drinking ages are...
Effects of Alcohol Price Policy on Youth
Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Saffer, Adit Laixuthai
In this paper we summarize research that deals with the effects of alcoholic beverage prices and excise taxes on a variety of outcomes for youth. These include alcohol consumption, excessive...
Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Smoking Among Young Adults
Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler
The effects of cigarette prices and tobacco control policies (including restrictions on smoking in public places and limits on the availability of tobacco products to youths) on cigarette smoking...
An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction: Results from the Monitoring the Future Panels
Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka, Ismail Sirtalan
This paper aims to refine and enrich the empirical literature dealing with the sensitivity of alcohol consumption and excessive consumption to differences in the prices of alcoholic beverages. The...
The Impact of Price, Availability, and Alcohol Control Policies on Binge Drinking in College
Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler
The effects of beer prices, alcohol availability, and policies related to driving under the influence of alcohol on drinking and binge drinking among youths and young adults are estimated using data...
Public Policy and Youth Smokeless Tobacco Use
Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, John A. Tauras
While much is known about the effects of prices and tobacco control policies on cigarette smoking, relatively little is known about their impact on smokeless tobacco use. This paper addresses these...
U.S. Trade Policy and Cigarette Smoking in Asia
Frank J. Chaloupka, Adit Laixuthai
During the 1980's and early 1990's, the cigarette markets in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Thailand were opened to U.S. cigarettes through actions taken under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act and...
Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking
Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman
This paper examines effectiveness of several tobacco control policies in discouraging cigarette smoking among youths. These policies include increased cigarette excise taxes (which result in higher...
The Demand for Cocaine and Marijuana by Youth
Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, John A. Tauras
In recent years, the debate over the costs and benefits of legalizing the use of currently illicit drugs has been revived. This paper attempts to inform this debate by providing some evidence on the...
Frank J. Chaloupka, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
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...
Price, Clean Indoor Air, and Cigarette Smoking: Evidence from the Longitudinal Data for Young Adults
John A. Tauras, Frank J. Chaloupka
The upward trend in cigarette smoking among teenagers throughout the 1990's has spurred a great deal of interest on how to discourage young people from smoking. This paper attempts to inform policy...
Do Higher Cigarette Prices Encourage Youth to Use Marijuana?
Frank J. Chaloupka, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Matthew C. Farrelly, Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley
Every major national tobacco legislation proposed in the past two years has called for significant increases in the price of cigarettes as a way to discourage youths from smoking. One argument used...
The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults: A Rational Addiction Approach
Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka, Charles C. Brown
This paper applies the rational addiction model, which emphasizes the interdependency of past, current, and future consumption of an addictive good, to the demand for cocaine by young adults in the...
Frank J. Chaloupka, Kenneth E. Warner
While the tobacco industry is among the most substantial and successful economic enterprises, tobacco consumption kills more people than any other product. Economic analysis of tobacco product...
Determinants of Smoking Cessation: An Analysis of Young Adult Men and Women
John A. Tauras, Frank J. Chaloupka
Substantial econometric efforts have been devoted to examining the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking propensity and intensity. However, little is known about the effects...
The Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapies
John A. Tauras, Frank J. Chaloupka
This paper is the first econometric study to examine the determinants of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) demand. Pooled cross-sectional time-series scanner-based data for 50 major metropolitan...
Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among College Students: Economic Complements or Substitutes?
Jenny Williams, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler
College campuses have been cracking down on underage and binge drinking in light of recent highly publicized student deaths. Although there is evidence showing that stricter college alcohol policies...
The Impact of Tobacco Control Program Expenditures on Aggregate Cigarette Sales: 1981-1998
Matthew C. Farrelly, Terry F. Pechacek, Frank J. Chaloupka
Since the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between states and the tobacco industry, states have unprecedented resources for programs to reduce tobacco use. Decisions concerning the use of these funds...
Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students' Drinking Intensity?
Jenny Williams, Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler
This paper investigates whether college students' response to alcohol price and policies differ according to their drinking intensity. Individual level data on drinking behavior, price paid per...
Christina Czart Ciecierski, Pinka Chatterji, Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler
The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of state tobacco control program expenditures on individual-level tobacco use behaviors among young adults. Data come from the 1993, 1997,...
Risks and Prices: The Role of User Sanctions in Marijuana Markets
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Beau Kilmer, Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka
User sanctions influence the legal risk for participants in illegal drug markets. A change in user sanctions may change retail drug prices, depending on how it changes the legal risk to users, how it...
Wakefield, Melanie, Terry-McElrath, Yvonne, Emery, Sherry, Saffer, Henry, Chaloupka, Frank J., Szczypka, Glen, ...
Objective. To relate exposure to televised youth smoking prevention advertising to youths’ smoking beliefs, intentions, and behaviors.
The Effect of Public Policies and Prices on Youth Smoking
This article empirically tests the effects of various tobacco control measures on youth cigarette demand using a 1996 nationally representative survey among U.S. high school students. Our measures of...
YOUTH ALCOHOL USE AND PUBLIC POLICY
ADIT LAIXUTHAI, FRANK J. CHALOUPKA
"This paper examines the frequencies of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989 and separately examines the effects of minimum legal drinking ages and beer excise taxes for each year. In...
EFFECT OF SURVEY CONDITIONS ON SELF-REPORTED SUBSTANCE USE
GAIL MITCHELL HOYT, FRANK J. CHALOUPKA
"This paper examines the impact of survey conditions on the self-reported use of marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol in the 1984 and 1988 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The...
New Evidence on Youth Smoking Behavior based on Experimental Price Increases
Hana Ross, Lisa M. Powell, John A. Tauras, Frank J. Chaloupka
The high youth smoking prevalence remains an important public policy challenge into the 21st century. This study applies a unique approach to analyzing the impact of cigarette prices on youth smoking...
Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students'Drinking Intensity?
Jenny Williams, Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler
This article investigates the impact of campus bans on alcohol use and the price of alcohol on college students'drinking intensity. The impact of a campus ban on drinking appears to depend on the...
CLEAN INDOOR AIR LAWS AND THE DEMAND FOR CIGARETTES
FRANK J. CHALOUPKA, HENRY SAFFER
This paper empirically tests the effect of clean indoor air laws on smoking. Public place clean indoor air laws restrict cigarette smoking in public places such as restaurants. Private place clean...
BINGE DRINKING IN COLLEGE: THE IMPACT OF PRICE, AVAILABILITY, AND ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICIES
FRANK J. CHALOUPKA, HENRY WECHSLER
This paper estimates the effects of beer prices, alcohol availability, and policies related to driving under the influence of alcohol on drinking and binge drinking among youths and young adults....
Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index
Lisa M. Powell, Frank J. Chaloupka
This study examines the relationship between child weight and fast food and fruit and vegetable prices and the availability of fast food restaurants, full-service restaurants, supermarkets, grocery...
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka, Patrick M. O’Malley, Lloyd D. Johnston, Matthew C. Farrelly
Front matter, acknowledgments, table of contents
Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, Warren K. Bickel, Henry Saffer
Price, Availability, and Youth Obesity: Evidence From Bridging the Gap
Chaloupka, Frank J., Powell, Lisa M.
After a decade of analyzing environmental influences on substance use and its consequences among youth in the United States, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Bridging the Gap program has begun...